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Old 09-01-2006, 05:52 PM
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Seems to me Sunnis are mean to Shias and Shias are mean to Sunnis - and it doesn't seem to matter that Saddam is tucked away in a prison cell in some unknown location. Did the Bush administration fool us with their rhetoric yet one more time?
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It seems the Middle East religious tensions are as strong as US racial tensions. The postive thing about Saddam being in jail is he is no longer slaughtering innocent people.
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"The postive thing about Saddam being in jail is he is no longer slaughtering innocent people."

>>>That's my point. Saddam is out of the way and those folks are still doing a good job of slaughtering each other. Who's the responsible party now?
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It seems the Middle East religious tensions are as strong as US racial tensions. The postive thing about Saddam being in jail is he is no longer slaughtering innocent people.
Middle East racial and religious tensions are on a whole different level than US racial tensions. When in US history have people gone around randomly gunning down members of the opposite race openly? Sectarian killings are a daily occurence in Iraq whether it be Sunni or Shia death squads. In Iraq, it's the eye for an eye mentality among the varioius sects that is leading to complete destruction of the country
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Have you forgotten what your white population has been doing to its black population for god only knows how many centuries.
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Have you forgotten what your white population has been doing to its black population for god only knows how many centuries.
How many black people are lynched anymore genius? Open racial killings are extremely isolated in this country compared to what they used to be. In Iraq they go around shooting each other firing randomly into crowds. When has that happened in the US? There is still racism in the US but it pertains more to lack of opportunity in the black community not racially motivated killing. Your argument doesn't adress today's realities in the US compared to Iraq at all.
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Seems to me Sunnis are mean to Shias and Shias are mean to Sunnis - and it doesn't seem to matter that Saddam is tucked away in a prison cell in some unknown location. Did the Bush administration fool us with their rhetoric yet one more time?
Wow, your so jaded by Bush hate that you're trying to convince yourself Saddam was a nice guy. How could Bush spin the Saddam story. His record speaks for itself. Used chemical weapons on the Kurds. Killed hundreds of thousands of people. Brutally repressed the Shias after an uprising in 1990. The record goes on. You make the left look really psycho when you try and intimate at nice guy arguments about Saddam.
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Dom, Your way off base on this one. Saddam and his sons terrised and brutaly murdered their own people.

I think a lot of the racial tensions in Iraq today, stems from the fact when Iraq was formed after WWI. The British did a lousy job of managing the country, just like they did in India. The idea was for the Arab world to solve their own problems.
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I wrote this somewhere else, but if a child grows up watching his/her parents bicker that is the only life they know. Unfortunately, the hate is so imbedded into their beliefs it will probably never end, and Saddam fed off o their hate to justify his own means.

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>>>That's my point. Saddam is out of the way and those folks are still doing a good job of slaughtering each other. Who's the responsible party now?
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