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Originally posted by Sprayber
No your point was to insult and not and bring anything to the conversation .
No your point was to insult and not and bring anything to the conversation .
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If that was my point, I could have done a much better job of it, I would hope
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Come on. You enjoyed it. Its ok to admitt it.Originally posted by asleepathewheel
If that was my point, I could have done a much better job of it, I would hope
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Firstly, protecting historical buildings does not exclude new projects on other spaces.Originally posted by Patroklos
Hmmmmm....
I suppose you all are in favor of a stop order on all constuction projects in Europe, forever.
Whatever the damage the American's did, which apparenty was nothing more than covering things up with gravel and sand, it pails in comparison to the damage Archeologists inflict.
At least now future archeologists have something to dig up again
Secondly, there's a slight difference between the random medieval house and the remains of the most important city in the cradle of civilization.
And thirdly, you cannot exactly compare smashing historical remains with tanks with systematic archaeological unearthings and preservation.
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Originally posted by Sprayber
Come on. You enjoyed it. Its ok to admitt it.
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Every army puts its graffiti on monuments. If you go to the Pyramids you can find Roman, French, British, Australian, you name it. Every army that ever was there.
Soldiers are like that. Not a good idea to put a camp there.Last edited by Alexander's Horse; January 17, 2005, 01:30.Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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Originally posted by SprayberOriginally posted by Smiley
and yet another layer is added to the heap. At this point they ought to just leave the base there, someday archaeologists will study the occupation of Iraq.
Finally, someone with a little prespective
Continuing to make excuses for inexcusable behaviourOriginally posted by Alexander's Horse
Every army puts its graffiti on monuments. If you go to the Pyramids you can find Roman, French, British, Australian, you name it. Every army that ever was there.
Soldiers are like that. Not a good idea to put a camp there.
Recognizing that it was a bad idea to put a base there, no matter the publically-stated reason
The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.Comment
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I'm not making excuses - dumb idea to put a camp there.
They probably did it as a p*ss on a tree thing.Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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I did give you a for the camp comment.
The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.Comment
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Originally posted by Sandman
Can someone explain to me the rationale behind using an ancient, precious city as a military base?
'I went to Eye-Rack and all I got me was a Gate of Ishtar!'
Well, clearly, insurgents might build catapults and hurl ancient lumps of clay at armoured personnel carriers.
I suspect the soldiers were having artificially induced 'Nam flashbacks, and believed they were on an a-Hue Day break.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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This is a ****ing outrage
. Tortured civilians, murderous insurgents and barbarian occupiers can be replaced, Babylon cannot. The only thing history will remember of this ill-fated exercise in American Machiaveillism and military/patriotic stupidity will be the defiling of this site and the complete ****-up of the Middle East and West-Islam relations for generations to come .
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Originally posted by Colon
Incompetence is not an excuse. (even though this administration seems to have different ideas about it)Yeah, well you would say that. It's your life excuse.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Of course it is.Res ipsa loquiturComment
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Tell me that after you've been there. The site was extensively bulldozed and concrete monstrocities were constructed to build a tacky "babylon" for western tourists to visit. The problem is it didn't really catch on in the 70's then the war in the 80's happened then the wars & sanctions of the 90's happened so the place never took off the way the Iraqi government wanted it too.Originally posted by Thorgal
Erm... HyperevilSadamwhojustifiesallatrocitiesthatwedo didnt bulldozed babylon ruins since it was an iraqi national symbol for him. In fact there were occidental archeologist studing there during those works and there were no protests as far as i know.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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So the US-Troops have fulfilled their holy duty,
to destroy the Whore Babylon once and for all
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Well, I'm not surprised. Dumb USAF bombed Pompeii in WW2.
Perhaps they're jealous of other cultures?Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
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They're like an ignorant, belligerant teenager having Christian intercourse with a bull in a china shop
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