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Old 12-17-2008, 06:18 AM   #18
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Re: Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero

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Originally Posted by 70Chip View Post
Throwing shoes. What an advanced culture these Arabs have. The incident put me in mind of Kipling:

"...Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
'Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?'..."


etc. etc.
i guess we are so advanced that we just shoot people? maybe sometimes living behind the times isnt so bad
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