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    Philologist Senior Member ajaxfetish's Avatar
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    Sorry to get you riled up, Redleg. Just grabbed a bunch of names from an online list of nations with high per capita records of human rights violations. I've got nothing personal against them, I just find it interesting that Spartan at one point used caring about the Iraqi people as his justification for the war. It seems strange to have so much care for the people of Iraq (does he know any personally?), without having a similar concern for oppressed people the world over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish
    Sorry to get you riled up, Redleg. Just grabbed a bunch of names from an online list of nations with high per capita records of human rights violations. I've got nothing personal against them, I just find it interesting that Spartan at one point used caring about the Iraqi people as his justification for the war. It seems strange to have so much care for the people of Iraq (does he know any personally?), without having a similar concern for oppressed people the world over.

    Ajax
    no big deal - I just wanted to point out the weakness of hyperbole exambles and try out a different type of arguement then I have in the past. Most of it I will probably delete unless some fish actually takes a bit out of it.
    O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish
    what makes the Iraqi people so special to you?

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    I've got close family friends that immigrated from Iraq in the late '80s and still have relatives currently living over there,plus ones that have died under Saddam's regime.
    Is that a good enough reason?
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