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Subject:	Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:16:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:

Also a country whose leaders tell them that cutting themselves with sabers and beating themselves with chains is a form of religious expression. Not the easiest group to assist into the 21st century.

Some of these things are a matter of culture. I’m sure they find the US porn industry just as offensive.

Well, let’s look at the facts. The porn industry rakes in about $20 billion annually; how much money to Iraqis make off of their religious expression? Obviously, if they’re not making a tidy profit, they’re savages.

Besides, don’t castigate the US porn industry--it’s one of our cultural and financial cornerstones. We don’t criticize the haggis industry, do we?

Dave!

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		Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
(...) Hey, Dave! Perhaps we should! The stuff is MUCH more offensive than looking at the human temple, er body, after all, Dave! (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
(...) ...and, like SH, Marcos was supported by Washington. (...) Forgive me, but I don’t remember the Philippines being invaded as part of an illegal and immoral war to remove Marcos? (...) It has been part of the occupation plan to fragment the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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