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Old 08-03-2006, 06:27 PM   #151
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Tell me what you think the baby's learning from what you can glean from that picture, please.
One word: madrassas.

I spoke of the child's entire trajectory until being issued a real vest. That he (if he is as is implied by the vest, male) will be groomed as a jihadi. doesn't take amazing insight.

I understand your position, I just think you're full of poop. And if you don't think you're leaning hard on "moral equivlance" with this line of yours, you don't earn my pity, because your blindness is wilful.
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Old 08-03-2006, 06:29 PM   #152
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No, not profiling. I've seen quite a few pictures of the remains. The heads are usually more intact than the rest of them.
That's pretty amazing, considering how "intact" the heads must have been before detonating.
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Old 08-03-2006, 08:51 PM   #153
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Would I take my child to sign artillery shells Bruce? Not if they were as young as the girls in the photo, I wouldn't ask my children no matter what age. But if I had a 16 or 17 year old that was suffering the same as I was and losing people they cared about, I would just quietly let them do as they wished. Those girls have been raised in a country haunted by bombings and terrorist killings, I'd imagine those girls know exactly what they want done with those shells and arn't afraid to make their sentiments known. Think of what it would be like if New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and other cities in the US were having buses blown up like what happens in Israel? How long do you think it would take the kids in those cities to go from wondering why it was happening, to wondering why people would do that, to hating the people responsible, to wanting them dead.

Can you imagine what it must be like to have to add a talk about "why did those men kill mommy/daddy/my best friend's dad/my best friend's mom" to the list of parental turning points?? I doubt you would give them a lecture on the history of Middle Eastern conflict. "They want us all dead dear" would be just as accurate.

Now, if I had to guess they probably aren't addressing those shells to the Lebonese in general. Israeli children by this point are probably savy enough to know their terrorist organizations by heart.
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Old 08-03-2006, 09:29 PM   #154
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You know, I did wonder why the hands off attitude towards the Middle East until it hit a flashpoint? Did Iraq use all of our diplomatic resources?

An ABCNEWS video report makes me wonder. Could large numbers of people really want a Mideast conflict and WWIII as a path to Heaven?
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Old 08-03-2006, 10:13 PM   #155
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Would I take my child to sign artillery shells Bruce? ~snip
Whoa, man..... BigV asked that question, not me.
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Old 08-03-2006, 11:21 PM   #156
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err, sorry about that little mixup
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Old 08-04-2006, 10:31 AM   #157
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But if I had a 16 or 17 year old that was suffering the same as I was and losing people they cared about, I would just quietly let them do as they wished.
Considering that within a year they might be *firing* those shells.
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Old 08-04-2006, 03:45 PM   #158
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You know, I did wonder why the hands off attitude towards the Middle East until it hit a flashpoint? Did Iraq use all of our diplomatic resources?
Our what? What year are you living in, man?
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Old 08-10-2006, 05:05 AM   #159
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I think it's fairly safe to say that children who have been born into the sort of horror so many of these children have would unfortunately have had their innocence stolen from them many years before their time. So, I'd say that yeah, they know what they're doing. They've been taught that if you don't get them first, they'll get you soon. If that's hate then that's what they've been taught. I'd hazard a guess and say it's probably more likely a case of self preservation which is innate in most human beings.

Either way it's heart wrenching no matter which way you look at it. Arguing about it on a stupid website doesn't help and it's definitely not going to stop it happening.

The other pictures are just stupid set ups and the parents are simply brainless to think anything like that could be funny. What morons...
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Old 08-11-2006, 01:26 AM   #160
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I think what the children are being taught is fear. The hate that just naturally follows the fear, doesn't have to be taught.
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Old 08-11-2006, 05:44 AM   #161
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Check this out ...

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Old 08-11-2006, 05:44 AM   #162
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Old 08-11-2006, 06:07 AM   #163
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Post an opinion tjauh. We all know that most of the picks out of Lebanon are real.
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Old 08-11-2006, 05:50 PM   #164
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tjauh has an agenda, not an opinion.
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Old 08-11-2006, 07:00 PM   #165
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Our what? What year are you living in, man?
Apparently the last one for this planet.
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