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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:06 AM Original message |
"When was the last time you saw you piles of dead white people?" |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. We didn't really 'see' 9/11 victims |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It's cruel, but that's the fact. The pile of dust was read last rites in every religion. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
2. I have but I was a medic so it comes with the territory |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. It wouldn't be tasteful to show piles of dead white people.. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:11 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Somebody DID complaint to CNN over Haiti |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. I'm not surprised.. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. They complained because it was too... troublesome |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. And yet killing and dead bodies are all over the place in fiction.. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
44. The fact that this thread is unrec'ed almost makes me want to leave DU again. Can you even imagine |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:58 PM Response to Reply #44 |
79. What if all the photographers set down their cameras? What if there were no pictures? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
6. In high school watching films about the Holocaust. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Deleted message |
Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. It is not about the disaster itself. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
61. My Father Saw It First-Hand |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. Jesus H. Christ. Get over it, LLStarks. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. Photos of the massacres in Yugoslavia in the early 90s. |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
40. They were muslin. How many Americans consider them white? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:05 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Not all of them were muslim. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #40 |
65. I know some Bosnians, Most are lighter-skinned then Greeks and Italians. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #65 |
72. Deleted message |
Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #40 |
77. You think religion somehow changes their race? |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-18-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #77 |
87. No. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #40 |
80. What? They were all made out of finely-woven cotton cloth? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
71. This is the correct answer |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-18-10 04:55 PM Response to Reply #71 |
88. chechnya as well |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. Never |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:26 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Then you have lived a sheltered life. Go to a Holocaust museum and learn something. n/t |
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Kalun D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Modern Times |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:56 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Not only that but most of the |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:31 AM Response to Reply #25 |
42. +100 You can't even imagine them showing the 9/11 bodies that WERE THERE. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Thanks for the insult. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:43 AM Response to Reply #10 |
36. please see post 9. the poster is quite right. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:22 AM Response to Original message |
11. Deleted message |
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Welcome to DU.. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 03:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
30. Mike would eat your face and spit out tea bags |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:51 AM Response to Reply #11 |
38. Go ahead. Think of one natural, non-war disaster where white bodies... |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:23 AM Response to Original message |
12. I think the point is that NATURAL disasters prey on the impoverished |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Oh, good lord. |
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jesus_of_suburbia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
26. The Natural disasters are bigoted! Shame on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
62. It's not the disaster areas that's bigoted it's the coverage of the dead. There's nothing natural |
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voc (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 03:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
32. +1000000000000 nt. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
14. The former Yugoslovia, perhaps. |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:52 AM Response to Reply #14 |
39. That was war. Natural disasters are the criteria. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:50 AM Response to Reply #39 |
47. The issue is what is considered socially acceptable to show, or to physically leave lying in piles. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-18-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #47 |
89. Interesting thread |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. The Balkans conflict(s) |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. GMTA |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. Although not exclusively white, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami |
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Kalun D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
23. K & R |
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PacerLJ35 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
29. Are you saying that natural disasters like earthquakes only pick dark-skinned victims? |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:31 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I believe the reference is not to the disasters themselves, but to |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:46 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. I believe it's your selective viewing- you see what you want to see. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:44 AM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Which is why people ignore piles of haphazardly displayed African American bodies. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:20 AM Response to Reply #46 |
55. why don't YOU go down to Haiti and lay out bodies respectfully? |
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Kalun D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. The Question |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:31 AM Response to Reply #29 |
52. San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 03:17 AM Response to Original message |
31. I interpret Malloy's question more rhetorically |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:08 AM Response to Reply #31 |
50. A-men. But more than that, it's socially acceptible to show piles of dead non-whites. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 03:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. Maybe, in a way, Americans are interested in seeing piles of dead people from a third world country. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:34 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. It wouldn't happen here. The bodies would be treated more respectfully. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:58 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. It wouldn't happen here for many reasons: |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:32 AM Response to Original message |
35. a lot of white people died during the Tsunami |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
45. Does any of the people unrec'cing this thread understand what it is about? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:51 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. your opinion is not some hallowed decree of truth from on high, dear. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:11 AM Response to Reply #48 |
51. To tell you the truth, the OP seems to take an odd perspective on the whole thing |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
53. *wakes up and sees that his topic has ballooned* |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #53 |
83. Did Mr. Malloy mention the many photos of people cheering as |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
54. Just my opinion here, but "piles of dead people"... |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:46 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. I wish I could K&R individual comments. nt |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:22 PM Response to Reply #54 |
69. Thank you for an eloquent answer to this bullshit question by the OP. I had a thread |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-18-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #69 |
85. Thanks...Don't feel alone about being visceral in these times... |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
58. Nature is a bigot. (nt) |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
59. If you're going to complain you should at least get the context correct. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
60. what's his point? n/t |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
63. The Resident Evil movies. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
64. Holocaust documentaries. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
66. That does it! I'm not recycling or buying fuel efficient cars anymore! |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
67. Earthquakes are such bigots. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
68. 'i see dead white people.' nt |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
70. Coal mine collapses under Bush, 9/11, Oklahoma, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Germany |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
73. semms to me |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:47 PM Original message |
With all due respect, white people were not the only people killed |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
74. Jonestown, Guyana 1978 *warning - graphic* |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #74 |
81. I think if people want to kill themselves..i guess that's their right |
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beam me up scottie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 08:59 PM Response to Reply #81 |
84. I know. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
75. Americans need to spine up and see what the rest of the world |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:57 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. The networks did the same thing after the tsunami. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
76. With all due respect has he ever taken a history class. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-17-10 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
82. BOSNIA for one.... |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-18-10 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
86. The Holocaust |
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