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The War on Knowledge in Iraq

PJ_SalukiPJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
Sad times over there. Don't know if this would've happened had we just stayed out.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-das10mar10,0,7338871.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
"Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Uday Hussein's body double speaks out about living with the family and how it affected his life.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45b09c9c17
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    All religious fundamentalists are engaged in a war on knowledge.

    Perhaps it pales in significance next to the horrific loss of life every day in Baghdad, but the destruction of irreplaceable books is also a tragedy.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • PJ_SalukiPJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Uday Hussein's body double speaks out about living with the family and how it affected his life.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45b09c9c17
    You know what's interesting about that? It shows S.H., who was not a good guy, as a real person instead of an evil caricature. It's easy to only see people in the way they're portrayed and forget that they were actually human. Of course, he was a bastard but still...
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
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