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Old 08-11-2005, 04:12 PM   #1
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Who the hell is ranting about blacks and hispanics disproportionately fighting in Iraq?!?!?!?!?!? My God! have we really run out of things to truely gripe about!!!??? What do these people think, that the war in Iraq is yet another underhanded way the "man" is beating the brother down?
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Old 08-11-2005, 04:16 PM   #2
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As far as I know, lookout123 is the only one ranting about it. I haven't seen it anywhere else.

I've heard of people ranting about the disproportional number of blacks in Vietnam, but not Iraq. Maybe I'm sheltered. After all, I'm sure you can find someone somewhere to rant about any paricular issue.
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Old 08-11-2005, 05:10 PM   #3
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Baer ruled that Saddam Hussein’s government was complicit in the September 11 attacks and that the Baathist government owed the plaintiffs a judgment of $104 million.
The way the American courts work they would have found the airlines complicit in the Sept.11th attacks if the Feds hadn't prevented it.
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Old 08-11-2005, 05:44 PM   #4
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i haven't heard many people ranting about minorities in combat recently. Al Sharptong was a few months ago, i've heard Dean do it once or twice but it didn't really catch. then i had a client come complaining because they were taking all the mexican soldiers and sending them to Iraq to die so no "white boys" would have to. that conversation motivated me to look up the actual numbers, coincidentally CNN ran the numbers during the same week. so there you go - more insight into the twisted thought process of lookout.
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