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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (38558)4/8/2004 8:00:42 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793939
 
We have circled around it here trying to define it, and got nowhere.

Oh, that's easy. It's the lying. Even when it isn't needed. Incessantly. With the protestations of honesty, "I swear on the virtue of my mother and the heads of my children." The Iraqi Information Minister was typical of the mentality.

Cutting corners, taking bribes, lackadaisicallity, are not significantly worse than many another Third World shit hole pretending to be something that it's not. The grandeur that was Babylon, built out of mud bricks. Unfired mud bricks, at that.

We just have a hard time, culturally, dealing with the lies.

I don't know if they're pulling stunts like putting suicide bombers in ambulances yet, but that's the type of low grade mentality that drives us up the wall, too.
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