newscaster
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Tue Jul-13-04 05:42 PM
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So, we send our Army and Marines to Iraq ostensible to stop a dictator and to prevent his religiously extreme cohorts from preventing other people from living free. Now, with the gay marriage issue in Washington, we have an extreme religious leader and his government attempting to keep other people from living free.
Its is just me or do others detect some hypocrisy here?
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Tue Jul-13-04 05:48 PM
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all these people who have this 'quaint' notion that barring gays from matrimony will save marriage this question: Who got marriage in the fix it is today? Seems to me it wasn't homosexuals!
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newscaster
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Tue Jul-13-04 05:49 PM
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2. Instead of banning gay marriage..... |
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why not try banning adultry and divorce? They too play havoc wioth marriage.
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Tue Jul-13-04 05:52 PM
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3. It's all a ploy to get his base to the polls, that's all. |
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He knows he's losing them, he needs a trumped-up issue that will actually make them vote, since a LOT of them are totally disillusioned with him and are deciding to stay home.
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Tue Jul-13-04 06:11 PM
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4. Actually, that's an error. |
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Saddaam didn't have any "religiously extreme cohorts," but enforced a secular society. That's one reason why claims of cooperation with Al Quaida are absurd -- they hated each other. Now that Saddaam is gone, however, the various fanatical religious extremists are at war with each other and fundamentalist Islamacist theocracy is more likely to fill the void.
Your point is otherwise well taken, though. We claim we are bringing "freedom" to the Iraqis, but except for removing Saddaam, we have brought them only death, destruction, and horror.
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