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Actor Omar Sharif: "The Middle east Will Never Be Democratized"
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| 6/9/08
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Posted on 06/09/2008 11:40:19 AM PDT by hoagy62
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To: hoagy62
Famous quotes:
“Man will never fly”
“The earth is flat”
“The sun revolves around the earth”
“Pelosi is an intelligent woman”
gee none of these ended up being true. */scarasm
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:29:03 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(McCain betrayed his conservative roots, conservatives, his party and America.)
To: Constitutions Grandchild
Remember, Iraqis are not Arabs. They are Persians...
Um, you mean Iranians are Persians.
Iraqis are indeed Arabs.
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:31:04 PM PDT
by
serbami68
(!)
To: Resolute Conservative
:-) Loved that movie!
LLS
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:31:10 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Could I ever vote for mcstain? NOT if jerk-face keeps running his liberal mouth!!!)
To: onedoug
Yes. we do.
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:31:13 PM PDT
by
isrul
(Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
To: DB
Muslim and Arab are not the same thing. I never said they were. It's the muslims who have the biggest problem with democracy. They didn't even have a word for it until just over 100 years ago.
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:32:48 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: Doohickey
sharif is a pos racist.
LLS
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:33:00 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Could I ever vote for mcstain? NOT if jerk-face keeps running his liberal mouth!!!)
To: Joiseydude
Sorry, just checked. I thought I remembered he had passed, but evidently that report was “greatly exaggerated”. Apologies — mostly to him.
To: ClearCase_guy
Let us not forget that during the French Revolution in the late 18th century, ordinary men tore bodies to bits and we have documented cases of severed heads being tossed and men biting a chunk out of the hearts of the deceased to the roar of the crowd.
There is a very thin veneer between civilization and barbarism. Arabs are no different from the rest of us in this regard. You show me Egypt, I will show you Dubai.
I've often been told that the Chinese are incapable of even the most modest forms of republican government. The evolution of Taiwan from dictatorship to one of the most democratic society in Asia alone proves this to be wrong.
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:36:56 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(No Comment)
To: hoagy62
I am so sick of people who do not understand democracy:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed”
Every time some CommieLib(TM) bubble head claims some group cannot follow our style of government, we just need to ask them what part of the Declaration of Independence do you not understand ???
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:48:27 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic one Post at a Time)
To: hoagy62
Of course the Mideast will never be democratized. As long as it is run by muslims they never will have a legitimate government since they believe government to be evil.
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posted on
06/09/2008 12:49:16 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
To: serbami68
I thought Iraqis were, as well. Babylon was a Persian city wasn’t it??? I know Iranians are. Whew! Must have had a senior moment.
To: All
“Sherif Ali! So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.”
To: hoagy62
Has been actor.
If you don’t like it here go home.
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posted on
06/09/2008 1:14:27 PM PDT
by
stimpy17
(Home of the free because of the Brave.)
To: isrul
What about Tunisia? Lebanon functioned as a parlimentary democracy for years until the civil war. Although not Arab, Turkey is functioning democracy, that 80 years ago no one would have thought possible. Neither Japan nor Germany would have been considered candidates for democracy 70 or so years ago, or Italy, either, for that matter.
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posted on
06/09/2008 1:19:52 PM PDT
by
attiladhun2
(Obama is the anti-Reagan, instead of opposing the world's tyrants, he wants to embrace them)
To: isrul
I agree. Democracy implies a civil legitimacy, and one of the central problems in Islam is establishing political legitimacy.
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posted on
06/09/2008 1:47:15 PM PDT
by
quadrant
To: hoagy62
Sharif said the "East" will never have a democracy because people like him "prefer to go to the neighborhood sheik."
Omar Sharif is a very old man. Times change and, given the opportunity,the young people of the Mideast may well prefer to move forward several centuries in the evolution of their society.
To: isrul
Then I suggest we neutralize Iran by whatever means necessary, then take the duplicitous Saudi-Wahabbi regime apart and turn it into an American oil colony.
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posted on
06/09/2008 1:54:42 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: hoagy62
"I lived in America for a long time. Only 10% of all Americans have a passport. In other words, 90% never left America," said Sharif. "They don't know anything. Americans are ignorant."Why vacation in some hell hole of a country in another part of the world when we have the most beautiful country on earth?
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posted on
06/09/2008 1:57:46 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: Rippin
The credentials of this bridge player are primarily - I would think being Arab may give him a little insight into the Arab way of thinking, but, I never played bridge.
To: hoagy62; All
Very interesting thread. Thanks to all contributors. BTTT!
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posted on
06/09/2008 2:40:24 PM PDT
by
PGalt
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