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To: Brumar89 who wrote (410443)	8/26/2008 6:51:11 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1574978

Actually an interesting article, thanks.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (410443)	8/27/2008 12:22:29 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574978

Shockingly enough, Daniel Pipes was lying yet again. He must have learned the art of lying from his father Richard Pipes, who was paid big bucks to lie about Soviet military capabilities in the 1970s. Or perhaps it's just a cultural thing. <<< ... Shirin sent me this (I cite with her permission): "FYI, As`ad, I spent the month of April in the Middle East (Amman for a couple of days, Lebanon for about four days, Syria for the rest of the month), and had MANY discussions about Obama with everyone from university professors to retired U.N. employees, to TV soap opera writers to hotel owners to journalists to suq merchants to taxi drivers (more taxi drivers and suq merchants than any other single group), and NOT ONE of them mentioned his middle name AT ALL. I was, of course, completely shocked! I thought their main focus would be his middle name, and yet they mostly focused on what they thought his policies were or might be. How surprising coming from Arabs! And they really must have liked me because not one of them threw a shoe at me!" ... >>> angryarab.blogspot.com Tom