Slothrop, Where Are You?

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on 2/15/03 9:31 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> 
>> I actually live like this already ...
> 
> There's some sense to it. "Criminally insane" or not, there's
> something creepy/very wrong about the way this world is going.
> 
> I don't pray, but maybe today I would, and as cheesy as it sounds,
> yes, for Iraqi children. I'm a big fan of diversity (though not of
> mono-I-mean-multi-culturalism) and am upset at the thought of Iraqi
> culture being diluted by Red, White and Coca-Cola culture, as well as
> the people under those numerical bombs so carelessly heft aloft from
> planes and guns and rockets...


Is there really such a thing as "Iraqi Culture"?

Of course, there is a long Arab tradition and culture. Baghdad is one of the
oldest cities on Earth. But is there really a nation called Iraq? My Iraqi
ex-girlfriend claimed that there is not. It was just the bureaucracy that
issued her passport and killed her parents.

I have no sympathy for the thugs of the Ba'ath Party. They deserve what they
get. I have sympathy for the poor bastards who will be on the receiving end
of the shitstorm. Ordinary people. American as well as Iraqi.