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Is "House of Saddam"
Where true art is?
"Because arab bashing
Is ALWAYS in season"
Skipper always sleeps in his dirty socks
Ginger's got 'er mo Monroe glamor
The professor crafts groovy gadgets
Tellin' time
By island way
Of tropical sun dials
And Coconut clocks
Mary Anne bakes coconut creme pies
Waitin' for the next boat back to Kansas
She hopes the day will come real soon
But that 'ol millionaire
Demands this
The skipper often thinks to himself
How it'd been better if they never left the dock
For here they now are
Away so far
Beached upon
A sand bar
Called Iraq
When viewing the devestation Bush's War has wrought upon the unfortunate Iraqi victims of his war I wonder how many of them now wish they still had Saddam, (our old ally who killed a million Iranians for us) back in control? Christians could practice their faith without fear, display crucifixes openly and women could choose to not wear a veil if they so desired. Education free to all levels producing one of the largest educated, professional class in the Islamic world especially amongst females. Free health care to all regardless of their religious views. Steve, World War 2
My advice to you
Is not to lose all sense of proportion
Or rhyme or reason
Because arab bashing
Is ALWAYS in season
you had to at least turn over a rock to find an antisemite. nowadays they're just popping up spontaneously, proud of their courage in confronting the vast international zionist conspiracy which is apparently the greatest threat to goodness and happitude.
Apparently there's no middle ground allowed between thinking Saddam was a great progressive statesman and thinking that Israel is the only hope for civilization in the Middle East because the Arabs are hopeless brutes. Must be true, because i hear it from the loons on the left and the loons on the right, both, in their neverending argument.
You're absolutely right, Gordon. We should show more respect to Sodom Hussein.
We should celebrate that heavily-armed people could go to Sodom's rallies.
We should forever cheer Sodom's nationalization of Iraq's oil industry which he used to further such progressive causes as the Iraq/Iran war which resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands on both sides.
We should honor Sodom for his humane treatment of his own people. Never mind those insane neocons over at Amnesty International who reported on Sodom's mass murder of 100,000 Kurds, the execution of innocent Kuwaitis, prostitutes, political prisoners, hell... anyone he didn't like.
As to your tired screed against Israel, even if everything you said was 100% true and worse, does that somehow make Sodom a person worthy of our respect?
To paraphrase Henry Jones and Dean Wormer, goose-stepping morons like yourself should learn that delusional anti-semitism is no way to go through life.
Hoo boy, I am sick of stupidity. But I sure like misspelling Sodom's name.
Now I'd buy THAT for a Dinar.
Who of course are the cause of all wars, disease and economic calamity.
What is up with referring to the deposed, murdered former President of Iraq as "Saddam"..? I've never understood that. It seems blatantly disrespectful. Or was it because Bush41 liked to pronounce the name as "Sadam", which I gather was supposed to remind people of "Sodom" as in "Gomorrah".
So we have an HBO historical miniseries? Wow, is THIS going to be painted with the heavy-Zionist paintbrush or what?
Check this out: Iraqis were free to own and publicly carry fully automatic weapons. People would carry automatic weapons to public appearances by President Hussein. Now -- can you IMAGINE attending a public appearance (if there were such a thing) by Bush43 while toting your legal automatic weapon?
Does the HBO fictional series cover Hussein's nationalization of Iraq's oil industry and how badly that pissed off British and US oil interests, who liked getting oil @ $0.50 a barrel?
When do we see the HBO miniseries on Israel's founders committing acts of terrorism against the indigenous people of their stolen country? Or a touching portrait of an eastern European women who emigrated to Israel only to find herself essentially held as a sex slave in Israel? When does the Palestinian genocide get a loving Hollywood portrayal?
Hoo boy I am sick of mainstream media.
I would watch this if is was done as a 'reality show' where 20-something drunk girls get to pull each other's hair for the right to be a paranoid dictator's main squeeze.
Of "Three Kings" fame
Doesn't he even get his little
Token red star today?
Sounds like the worst episode of MTV Cribs ever.
They are worth the price of admission alone.
The contrast between the sane brother and the insane brother is also interesting. I watched it on BBC and thought it was a great soap opera, even though I knew most of the history already.
"Paranoia the destroyer."
As recent history has proved: Sometimes paranoiacs really do have conspiracies plotted against them.
I saw this series when the BBC first aired it on this side of the Atlantic a few months ago, and I very much enjoyed it. I did think it far more reminiscent of the Sopranos or some other mafia saga than Star Wars, which is quite a leap of imagination and association on Ms. Havrilesky's part.
An amusing irony is that the actor playing Saddam, Igal Naor, is Iraeli, and Shohreh Aghdashloo who plays his wife Sajida is Iranian. Saddam would have considered this casting quite an indignity, I would imagine.
Khairallah is not small Toyota compact.
FYI... the Adnan that Saddam killed and that his wife Sajida confronts him about in the series, was actually Sajida's brother Adnan Khairallah
HBO didn't make it, they're just showing it.
and it's all Bush and America's fault anyway.
& Archie's Bunker
This cheese dip here
Sounds like a "real"
Made for TV
All in the Ugly
Clunker