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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:50 AM
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U.S Military destroys Babylon!!! Literally!
Camp Alpha, a U.S. military base in Iraq, was built directly on top of the ancient temple area of Babylon. The base's location was chosen to protect the archeological site from looters. Instead, the base has resulted in damage that some antiquities experts characterize as "horrifying."
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1973682
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:52 AM
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1. Is this one of the signs of the coming apocalypse?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:52 AM
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14. It is according to the fundagelicals. They still have to fulfill
some other prohecies. One of them, I think, being the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem?

Does anyone else feel like (s)he is trapped in an Indiana Jones flick, but with no Indy in sight to rescue us?

Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:54 AM
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2. that figures
this war brought to you by the gang that couldn't shoot straight:eyes:
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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:54 AM
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3. I heard that story on NPR this morning...
Sad.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:57 AM
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4. Well, they have to have a place to protect our troops and
Edited on Thu Jun-24-04 09:57 AM by merh
SH did it way before we did. They will have excuses, but there is no excuse for this war and the death and destruction.

(That is only one of 14 base sites - that are being constructed by (or improved?) in Iraq. We never intend to leave, there will be 14 bases there and our troops will always be there and we will watch the oil and will maintain "a presence" in the ME and the villagers will be grateful and give us flowers and hug our necks...
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 09:58 AM
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5. Actually under Saddam the antiquities were protected.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:38 AM
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10. I was just relaying what another had told me yesterday in a .
different post. I had mentioned the destruction of Babylon and was challenged on it. In response I provided links to the AP story that I had read earlier this month on Camp A and the destruction. This is a new link and I thank you for it. Forgive the sarcasm in my earlier post.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:47 AM
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13. Here is the
previous thread where I had this discussion. You may want to share what you know with Columbia as Columbia seemed pretty interested in this too. I admit that I am very limited in my knowledge of the site.
Thanks for the post and the information.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1845915&mesg_id=1846136
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 11:08 AM
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15. Hey..no prob
Thanks
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:07 AM
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6. In historical accounts, make no mistake...
Bush will be held responsible for the destruction his war wrought on the cradle of civilization. Unlike Humpty Dumpty, the fragmented antiquities of Mesopotamia can not be put back together once they have been blown to smithereens.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:29 AM
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9. Let me edit...
Just reread my post. edit: LIKE Humpty Dumpty...

:-)
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:09 AM
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7. and that too will
be covered by the sea of sand..a thousand years from now someone will unearth the remains of our imperial army.nothing is forever.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:13 AM
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8. I started the day with this
depressing story. Then I turned on the TV and found out how many have died and been maimed today in the attacks by Iraqi "insurgents" (says CNN)/ "terrorists" (says Fox). And we're supposed to "turn over" Iraq in 6 days?

Then I turned on one of the holy-roller programs I watch for entertainment (and to keep an eye on the enemy). Billye Brim was telling us how prophecy indicates that The Beast of Revelations is ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY the "New Roman Empire," which she says is the European Union. She was assuring European Christians they must pray to hold back this antichrist (and pretend they're just not part of their governments) but that they'll be taken up in the Rapture before the shit hits the fan.

She also said that the EU has declared itself anti-American, and has launched a spy satellite that is jamming America's frequencies.

I think I may go back to bed.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:41 AM
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11. Talk about misdirection - the EU is the antichrist?
You know the Europeans are shaking their heads saying, look in the mirror U.S. -

If I could, I would go back to bed too - I would pull the covers over my head and the pillows over my ears and I would cry until I fell asleep.

We are in a "world" of hurt and it just won't stop.
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justjones Donating Member (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 10:45 AM
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12. I've always said after they destroy the world....
in order to bring on the Apocalypse, whichever of them are left I wonder what they are going think when they are looking over the horizon waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ and he never comes......

I hope at least one non-believer is there to say, "Ay-ha!" like that character on the Simpsons.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 11:11 AM
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16. Remember when we got bent when the Taliban destroyed the statues!
Edited on Thu Jun-24-04 11:12 AM by trumad
I see no diff in what we're doing...

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DivinBreuvage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 01:49 PM
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19. Oh, he WILL come
And he will cast them all into the Lake of Fire.
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doni_georgia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 11:16 AM
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17. Heard this story on NPR this morning
The story about archealogists going in to inspect the site was all in the news last week. Funny how none of the same news sources are carrying the findings of that inspection.
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ElementaryPenguin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 11:17 AM
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18. Fuck!!!
:puke:
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