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aint_no_life_nowhere

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3. I don't know a lot about the finer points of middle eastern politics

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2014, 05:36 PM

Aug 2014

but the Kurds sound like the most level-headed and mentally stable people in the area. They don't seem to want to compel others to believe in certain psychotic mythologies under penalty of death.

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That is why in the first gulf war they did not over throw him. They pushed him out of Kuwait still_one Aug 2014 #1

monsters bigger then saddam - beyond disturbing samsingh Aug 2014 #2

The Americans that lied us into the Iraq war were always monsters bigger than Saddam. FiveGoodMen Aug 2014 #4

I don't know a lot about the finer points of middle eastern politics aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2014 #3