patrice
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:39 PM
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What if: Iraqis were "White" and "Christian" ? |
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Leave ALL other facts the same and change just this one. Would things be different now?
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:40 PM
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1. we do not invade white nations |
patrice
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:41 PM
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2. Oh, come one now, try real hard . . . . |
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Wouldn't we go after those "WMD" anyway?
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:44 PM
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3. So the former Yugoslavia is ethnically composed of??? |
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Edited on Fri Sep-09-05 01:44 PM by YOY
Then again that was on a much smaller scale and for very different reasons.
Yes, I do agree Iraq is a racist war.
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:55 PM
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6. Race may not be a Necessary condition for choosing war, |
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but to many people it IS a sufficient condition for that decision.
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:56 PM
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7. Well we didn't invade Yugoslavia |
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:44 PM
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"We" might invade white Christian nations for Halliburton ... Not as easily, not as happily but all's fair in oil and business.
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:46 PM
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5. Excuse me, but there have been indigenous Christians in Iraq |
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since the times right after Christ, when the region was called Mesopotamia.
And, BTW, most Middle Eastern peoples are considered white, even though their skins may be slightly olive-colored. Same goes for Italians, Greeks, Turks, and other Mediterranean-area peoples.
:shrug:
But to answer your question: I doubt that things would be much different. Consider the oil and the geography of the region.
:evilfrown:
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Fri Sep-09-05 01:59 PM
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I've heard people say that before but it's just crap. First of all there is no such thing as 'race'. Arabs speak a semitic language, which is derived from the Hamito-Semitic family...an African origin family. Lastly, I had white kids attack me a number of times growing up, and have been threatened as an adult on numerous occasions just for my appearance because i'm arab.
Sorry, we're not white.
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Fri Sep-09-05 02:01 PM
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9. butbut, they look so brown! |
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"i'm thinking about not caring....."
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