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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:16 PM
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Our Culture is Sick! Report of Pounding of Najaf online next to Cellulite
Edited on Thu Aug-19-04 05:21 PM by KoKo01
ad showing female buttocks with cream to get rid of the "orange peel."

This is sick. How can anyone live in a culture who positions death and destruction next to ads for body enhancement.

Sick...:puke:
(CLICK THIS LINK FOR VIEW OF BUTTOCKS THAT WERE ON THE SITE..)
?campaign_id=14706&rand=&1092953778679899

Al-Sadr Tells Militia to Turn Over Shrine

37 minutes ago


By ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI, Associated Press Writer

NAJAF, Iraq - Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters Thursday to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, hours after U.S. forces bombed militant positions and Iraq (news - web sites)'s prime minister made a "final call" for the cleric's militia to surrender.


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Slideshow: Iraq

Allawi Issues 'Final Call' to Al-Sadr
(AP Video)

Latest headlines:
· Rice Counsels Patience During Iraq War
AP - 7 minutes ago
· Possible Najaf Mosque Attack Carries Risk
AP - 8 minutes ago
· U.N. Keeps Low Profile in Iraq After Blast
AP - 13 minutes ago
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Blasts and gunbattles persisted throughout the day Thursday in the streets of Najaf, where militants bombarded a police station with mortar rounds, killing seven police and injuring 35 others. At night, at least 30 explosions shook the Old City as a U.S. plane hit militant targets east of the Imam Ali shrine.

U.S. forces also battled al-Sadr's supporters in a Baghdad slum, where militants said five fighters and five civilians were killed. Also, late Thursday, an American warplane bombed targets in the Sunni city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad.

Insurgents fired back mortars toward a U.S. base as calls of "God is Great" and Quranic verses blared from the loudspeakers of Fallujah's mosques. U.S. forces have routinely bombed targets in the city it says are strongholds of Sunni insurgents believed responsible for violence against coalition troops, Iraqi forces and civilians.

Militants elsewhere in Iraq attacked oil facilities in the north and south, fired mortars at U.S. Embassy offices in the capital, injuring one American, and threatened to kill two hostages, a Turkish worker and a U.S. journalist.

In a speech, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi had warned the radical cleric to disarm his forces and withdraw from the shrine after his government threatened to send a massive Iraqi force to root them out.

Defying that ultimatum, al-Sadr sent a telephone text message vowing to seek "martyrdom or victory," and his jubilant followers inside the shrine danced and chanted.

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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:19 PM
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1. Welcome to Amerika!
Home of the disturbed!

As George Carlin says: It's a great country, but it's a strange culture!

:crazy:
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Ghetto_Boy Donating Member (307 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:22 PM
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2. The average American cares much more about cellulite than Najaf
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Lin Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:25 PM
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3. same culture that devotes 1/2 its media time
to scott peterson- kobe bryant & m. jackson.....so very weary... shame isn't it? hey, commit a violent crime? THINKIN OF IT? get famous in America. :evilgrin:
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:26 PM
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4. Well, that wasn't as bad as the airline commercial that was
aired on 9-11 in between the footage of the airplanes flying into the WTC. That was really sick and why didn't the programmers or even the airline insist they be taken off the air.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 06:47 PM
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7. Geeze, I missed that one...sick.. People need to complain..about
this "sickness" along with the "Political Travesties." All of it...THESE FOLKS ARE SICK!" They would sell their own family members for a few coins...who are they?
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theboss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 05:26 PM
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5. How do I get the free trial?
The ad doesn't say.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-04 06:39 PM
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6. Well... it's really weird and disgusting to hit a site about this
stuff and have "body parts" and "fluff" come up. If I want to watch CNN for this...then fine..but why don't they have "Tast Policy?" "Standards?"

Would you want to go to your Mother or Father's Funeral and have a "Buttocks Show" going on during the ceremonies?

At what point is this "crossing the line of good taste, here???"
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