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The Booze Is Back in Baghdad

Slowly, in certain urban pockets, a more liberal, secular culture is returning to Iraq's streets.

By Larry Kaplow | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jun 30, 2008

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  • Posted By: semsem77 @ 10/22/2008 3:09:43 PM

    Comment: all people must know that our religion ISLAM conserve the woman and order men to respect her so he ordered her to wear head cover not to be seen as a desired woman for sex.
    as ISLAM respect the mind and human brain thats why wine is forbidden.
    any one can tell me how many accidents took place cause the person was drunk???????!!!!!!!
    how many harassment took place cause the lady was wearing tight or short clothes that let her hips so sexy and obveious to men leading men to annoy them in streets
    just think about it!!!!!!!!
    that what AMERICA fight in IRAQ and what needs to fight in all ISLAMIC countries!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: richardwbailey @ 10/21/2008 3:52:09 PM

    Comment: Exit The United States of America
    Enter: Babylon!

  • Posted By: richardwbailey @ 10/21/2008 3:49:17 PM

    Comment: Exit America Enter Babylon

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/21/2008 12:56:03 AM

    Comment: After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, and put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

    Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

    Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

    Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

    Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

    Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

    And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

    In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: Keene1920 @ 08/24/2008 10:25:21 PM

    Comment: Ignorance and all it manifestations and consequence will all ways be with us or will it ? If the earth is not destroyed and the progressive intelligent people are allowed to thrive for say three thousand years will we still have people destroying each other

  • Posted By: Walk_A_Mile_In_Their_Shoes @ 07/21/2008 1:46:43 AM

    Comment: Jeeze, they could use a little good time.

  • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:31:07 AM

    Comment: Dummies listen up! ... it was a muslim opened a booze store selling to muslims and licensed by a muslim government! try reading correctly please!

  • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:26:05 AM

    Comment: XXXXX

    • Posted By: ALWAYSRIGHT @ 07/12/2008 10:35:56 AM

      Comment: Read properly ... it was a muslim that opened a booze store ... selling to muslims ... licensed by a muslim government!

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 06/26/2008 12:39:14 AM

    Comment: innspectormichael @ 06/24/2008 1:03:31 AM
    Comment: I am pro Allah

    HOW COULD YOU BE PRO ALLAH. HAVE YOU EVER MET ALLAH. OR DO YOU JUST IMAGINE HE IS THERE.? WE HAVE A MILLIONS OF NUTS AROUND THE WORLD THAT DIE FOR A RELIGION THAT IS NOT REAL. THIS IS CRAZY. THIS ALLAH BULL HAS TO STOP IT CAUSING CHAOS.
    THESE MUSLIMS AND ARABS NEED TO KNOW THAT ALLAH WAS ACTUALLY AMERICAN and HIS MESSAGE WAS DO NOT COMMIT SUICIDE.



  • Posted By: midnight05 @ 06/24/2008 1:03:30 PM

    Comment: Fundamentalism is not good for anyone. The notion of "cover" varies from Kabul to the streets of Singapore and women's modesty varies depending on how much the people in charge are drawn from mountain tribes where women are less valuable than cows. It is good to see life back in Baghdad and anyone who wishes to be a "good Muslim" needn't drink or hold hands with his girlfriend.

  • Posted By: innspectormichael @ 06/24/2008 1:03:31 AM

    Comment: I am pro Allah, and Pro Obama! We shall overcome! Allah loves everyone!!!
    Obama '08!

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 06/24/2008 12:35:41 AM

    Comment: NO AMERICAN LIFE IS WORTH IRAQI FREEDOM.
    "ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS NOT A REAL AMERICAN eddiewhere 2008

    We need to get out of Iraq and transfer responsibility and management of that country to the IRAQ's themselves. THEY SHOULD be backed by a multinational force led by Middle Eastern countries until they are able to fight extremist on their own.
    Our unilateral approach in the MIDDLE EAST has to come to an end. ECONOMICALLY, IRAQ IS KILLING the average tax payer and making a few private contractors and oil firms rich.

    We need Oil. WE NEED OIL. Therefore, getting rid of the Iranian regime is at the top of our agenda.
    The majority in Iran want change but not under and American led invasion. It has to be done from within. We lost the support of moderate Arabs and Muslims over the last six years. Hopefully, PRESIDENT OBAMA can empower this group and encourage them to meet with their counterparts.

    Inotherwords there should be an alliance between all moderates in the Middle East, JEWS, ARABs, MUSLIMS, ect... These forces must be self motivated by a common cause, Peace. IF this group can be strengthened they themselves will defeat or at least contain the force of extremism.
    WE must strengthen the forces behind peace and weaken those against peace on both sides.

    THE UNITED STATES CANNOT SOLVE THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WE CAN ONLY STRENGHTEN AND SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.

    IN THE SHORT RUN WE NEED MIDDLE EASTERN OIL. THIS COMPLICATES OUR ROLE OVER THERE.
    WE Should have had an ENERGY SUMMIT TEN YEARS AGO. WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A TWENTY YEAR PLAN to RID OURSELVES of OIL DEPENDENCY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TWENTY YEARS WILL GO BY LIKE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO START NOW.

    THE most dangerous threats are the ones you do not see coming. LIKE CHINA, RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPEAN organized crime. Monitoring these entities will be our great challenge.
    ARE WE READY FOR CYBER WAR. I DON't THINK SO.

  • Posted By: mhelmy21 @ 06/24/2008 12:31:56 AM

    Comment: Booze has always been there. The saddam dictatorship paid extra to make the iraqi brand beer priced low for the people. Also by the way, the trend for iraqi men was to grow mustaches, not beards. Women also wore western clothing for over the last 20 years. Only the rural women wore traditional clothing. Please do a better job on your research.

    • Posted By: timothius @ 07/14/2008 11:10:18 AM

      Comment: The strict restrictions referred to didn't happen under Saddam, they happened under the extremist militias that controlled cities and neighborhoods around Iraq. That is why the article references these men "RE-opening" their liquor stores.

  • Posted By: jpaffel@hotmail.com @ 06/23/2008 11:45:54 PM

    Comment: This is great news! Booze and gambling coming back to Iraq. How cool is that? We've spent 10s of billiions to foster this wonderful freedom. What a mess.

  • Posted By: jpaffel@hotmail.com @ 06/23/2008 11:43:20 PM

    Comment: This is great! Booze and casinos coming to Baghdad. Just lovely.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:31:38 PM

    Comment: chatto444 you are a real genuine moron.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:28:37 PM

    Comment: Freedom is returning to Iraq. I hope all you bleeding heart liberals that were against this war read the story.

  • Posted By: papabran @ 06/23/2008 11:27:38 PM

    Comment: This story says that freedom is returning to Iraq. I hope all you anti war liberals read it.

    • Posted By: AmeriKhan Lobo @ 06/24/2008 1:58:19 AM

      Comment: so this story is the "Gospel" in your mind on freedom returning to Iraq?
      It said this is only in pocket areas of Bagdad near the green zone.

  • Posted By: jroberts0078@msn.com @ 06/23/2008 10:01:25 PM

    Comment: I think this story is great. My husband spend many nights living among the iraqi people when he was deployed last year. He has many great stories of how friendly and giving most of the people were. He got to be there for several schools opening for both boys and girls. As well as hospitals and stores. He got to play soccer with the kids and share tea and food. Of course there are the bad apples... as there are in every culture and extremists in every religion..... they are by no means the majority.... not even over there.
    Even though he came home severely injured by a roadside bomb he still holds the general Iraqi population in high regard and wholeheartedly believes that we are doing good over there.... irregardless of the who/what /why and how we got there....( those are questions for a whole different can of worms)

  • Posted By: jroberts0078@msn.com @ 06/23/2008 9:51:00 PM

    Comment: I think it is a great story.... my husband spent several weeks living among the iraqi people when we was over there with the 1st Cav. Division a year ago. He came home with tons of great stories about how friendly and giving most of the people were. He was excited to hear about things opening back up. He got to witness several schools reopening for both boys and girls as well as hospitals and stores. He got to play soccer with the kids and will go on and on about the tea and food the people made for them. TO BAD so many people only hear/listen to the negative......... the alcohol in this article was the choice of the writer, there are tons of these stories... schools, banks, stores. Any of which could have been used.

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 9:06:18 PM

    Comment: Pink - Sounds like you need to expand your world experience and stop believing the propaganda that others dish out. Fermented mare's milk in the middle of the desert is a unique experience and one that is as ancient as men and horses. It isn't all that tasty but its all the more wonderful around a fire in the desert twilight with new friends sharing stories about life and learning about each others cultures. There is more room for all of us on this patch of universe than the any of the dogma allows...

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 9:05:58 PM

    Comment: Pink - Sounds like you need to expand your world experience and stop believing the propaganda that others dish out. Fermented mare's milk in the middle of the desert is a unique experience and one that is as ancient as men and horses. It isn't all that tasty but its all the more wonderful around a fire in the desert twilight with new friends sharing stories about life and learning about each others cultures. There is more room for all of us on this patch of universe than the any of the dogma allows...

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 8:12:22 PM

    Comment: This is some of the best news since the hanging of SH. When men can decide to drink a little whiskey, freedom is present. Don't need some religious zealot telling me what I can or can't do. THe natural laws do that for me just fine. Things might rationalize in this place after all.

    • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 8:51:40 PM

      Comment: Great comment. I live in Utah where the majority of the population is mormon. Most of the mormons that I know do not have the freedom to down a cold one on a hot afternoon while around other mormons but do so in private. Same reason you do not take only one mormon fishing with you..he'll drink all your beer.

      • Posted By: ben nevis @ 06/24/2008 12:47:38 PM

        Comment: Chatto444, papabran is right you are a MORON!

      • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 8:54:20 PM

        Comment: Existen...God is still good though man. I do not think he minds you having a few cold ones. I even think Jesus was a man who like to have a few but they all knew their purpose and did it well.

  • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 8:00:51 PM

    Comment: This is great. I own a wholesale beverage company and now I can sell my products again in Iraq. Thank you so much. It is time to celebrate.

  • Posted By: uncahal @ 06/23/2008 7:31:52 PM

    Comment: Gee, that's just really swell.Booze and death.....Amerika's number one exports.

    • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 8:09:21 PM

      Comment: Yeah uncahal, that's all we export. Don't forget the majority of the worlds grain, the technology to make the world better, the money to support those that can't (or won't) support themselves etc. etc. Yeah, we're the ones that blew up the majority of the innocent men, women and children there. We're the ones that invented alcohol (um, if memory serves me correctly many muslims drink fermented milk and honey - saw it almost every day while working in Iraq, Saudi, UAE, etc, etc.). Don't preach how we're the cause of your problems. People like you are the cause of the problem. Whaaaaa, I don't get my way, so I'll blame it on America. Whaaaaa, I don't like things so I'll call myself a relgious martyr and blow up innocents instead of trying to improve things....

    • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 06/23/2008 7:57:13 PM

      Comment: It simple...go somewhere else to live where you can live your ideal life. Get out.

  • Posted By: ananimo @ 06/23/2008 7:21:59 PM

    Comment: Thanks alot Operation Freedom ! You really set the Iraqi's free. It's really vital that you tarnish our pure culture by desensitizing our people and spreading your stupid low life morals like drinking. God Bless the land of the drunks. Dam Idiots!

    • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 8:05:24 PM

      Comment: Yeah ananimo, under the religous zelots the wondeful culture of the Iraqi's was really great. Beheadings, mass bombings, murder of women and children just because they didn't dress or act or say the things you wanted. Yeah, your pure culture. Wonderful. Hiding women because you're afraid you can't control yourselves. Afraid that given the light of day, the mullahs preaching hate would run like the cockroaches they are. Soooo wonderful....tell me, do you think the 4th century was so wonderful? Truly?

  • Posted By: happytrails @ 06/23/2008 7:10:32 PM

    Comment: Who wouldn't drink - while living in Baghdad???

  • Posted By: stormhelm @ 06/23/2008 5:07:27 PM

    Comment: And I am not worried about my spelling since you can and anyone else that is`nt anal retentive can...

  • Posted By: stormhelm @ 06/23/2008 5:05:26 PM

    Comment: Comment:"" You do realize that alcohol is an afront to christianity, read the bible. The correct spelling in this case is their not there."" I suggest YOU read the Bible sir as you are woefully inaccurate...
    Drunkenes IS an affront NOT drinking alcohol in common - sense moderation which is NOT prohibited in the Bible at all!.. dewcooper is CORRECT about that wedding celebration when Jesus Christ made the BEST wine they ever had......Read those Scriptures in Matthews ...Fundamentalism and personal viewpoints/Officiall dogmas in Apostate Christianity is partly to blame for wild inaccuracies from what the Bible really
    teaches....The Blind leading the Blind and I suggest any and all to really study and read the Bible and not make inaccurate statements...Drunkeness is condemnedn NOT wine or why else does The Most High allowed it and Christ drank and he did`nt get drunk?

  • Posted By: ICE626 @ 06/23/2008 5:02:02 PM

    Comment: Nins@06....are you brain dead???.....McCain has been supporting the closure of that loop hole for a long time now.....Hussein Obama is just now jumping on the bandwagon....

  • Posted By: stormhelm @ 06/23/2008 4:54:49 PM

    Comment: Drunkeness is an affront to Christiany and alcohol taken with common sense moderation is not prohibited and dewcooper is correct when Jesus Christ made the best wine ever out of water in a wedding party...Anyone says otherwise is an affront and incorrect to what the Bible really teaches and Fundamentalism is an Affront period...Inaccurate and distorted views of the Bible is rampant and nothing new in Apostate Christianity...Goes with Judaism and Islam too...

  • Posted By: Nins @ 06/22/2008 8:01:56 PM

    Comment: Some of you who read my posts about investment banks driving up the price of oil through commodities futures trading did not believe me that this was a real issue, despite the fact that the Senate is investigating it. Well, it really is an issue and an important one, so important the the Department of Justice is going to investigate.

    Today Senator Obama announced a plan today to crack down on excessive energy speculation and fully close the loophole in the CFTC regulations that I referred to in my blog. This loophole is also called the "Enron Loophole" because it was created by McCain Campaign co-chair Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron lobbyists, and exempts most trading on energy commodities from regulation. As a result, the CFTC is unable to oversee the oil futures market or investigate cases where excessive speculation is driving up oil prices. Just last month, John Hofmesiter, President of Shell Oil Company, says that the proper, uninflated production price of a barrel of crude oil is no more than $65.

    http://www.financialpost.com/reports/oil-watch/story.html?id=532747

    Clarence Cazalot, CEO of Marathon Oil, stated in November of 2007 that "$100 oil just isn't justified by the physical demand on the market - it is speculation on the futures market that is driving this."

    http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/12/markets/oil_hundred/index.htm?postversion=2007111216

    Larry Chom, Chief Economist of Platt's, states in a recent Businessweek article that speculation is adding at least $50 to the price of every barrel of oil. You can read this article in the May 13, 2008 edition of Businessweek, but it is no longer available on their website unless you are a member.

    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2008/

    To see what Senator Obama is doing to correct this serious problem and lower the price of gas and oil, go to his website:

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

    Now THAT is my kind of President! Sees the problem, and moves to fix it, while Bush and McCain are sitting on their hands.

  • Posted By: tekmastr @ 06/22/2008 2:09:57 PM

    Comment: Stories of this nature are good to read. All we have heard in the past were the bombing and the lack of government progress. This may not be the whole story on Iraq but it is one that has not been presented and we need to see that not all the effort that has been put into Iraq has not been lost.

  • Posted By: news8111 @ 06/22/2008 9:54:57 AM

    Comment: Wine, women, and song.

    Is there anything else the West can offer thsoe who don't live by its rules?

    Reminds me of the girlie bars in Vietnam and Bangkok.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/22/2008 10:38:44 AM

      Comment: Just a bullet in the back if they don't do as we say! It does remind me of those same places also and include Subic Bay when we OWNED IT. Thiland was a trip to!

  • Posted By: Savitar @ 06/22/2008 12:02:00 AM

    Comment: Don't worry, loriw, there are plenty of grocery stores, i.e., open-air food markets, in Baghdad. I'm not sure about the bookstores - those would be a little harder to pick out at 200' and 120 KIAS. Liquor stores, or any sign of a more relaxed and secular society are indicators that the people of Iraq have decided to they are tired of the insanity of the sectarian violence and will no longer listen to those who seek to prolong it. Downside is, the only ones in Iraq now forbidden to touch alcohol are the soldiers of the U.S. Army.

    • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 8:02:12 PM

      Comment: loriw, yeah, there a books stores and such open. But like normal, you don't hear about them. And your son-in-law would be able to tell you that if he wasn't in the green zone all the time. No, it's not 100% safe, but it is getting better.

    • Posted By: loriw @ 06/22/2008 3:44:11 PM

      Comment: Sadly , the open air food market has been bombed at least twice in as many months.

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/21/2008 10:47:13 PM

    Comment: BTW
    THAT WAS PART OF A MULTI-TRILLION BUDGET TO REBUILD IRAQ. HOSPITALS,SCHOOLS,ECT, ECT! NOT A SLAP IN THE FACE, FOR A BILLION OR MORE! SEE WHAT IT BOUGHT AND WHERE EVERY DIME WAS SPENT! SO SAYTH THE DC AUDITORS, OH YA THERE ARE NONE!

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/21/2008 10:44:08 PM

    Comment: SLAP SLAP SLAP I THOUGHT WE WERE NOT INVADERS AND OR CONQUERES??? GUESS I WAS WRONG! SO WHERE IS THE 51st STAR FOR THE NEW STATE OF IRAQ? BOOZE IS AN AFRONT TO
    T-H-E-R-E RELIGION! IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO KNOW. EVERY LIQUER STORE=50 DEAD TO COME VERY VERY SOON. THAT'S LIKE COMMING HERE AND TURNING A CHUCH INTO A SOFT PORN THEATER!

    • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 8:00:17 PM

      Comment: Actually pink, booze isn't an afront to their religion. The quaran says they can't drink alcohol made from grain or grape. So they get around it by drinking fermented milk and honey. And yeah, pink, you are kind of a religious nut job.

    • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 7:57:39 PM

      Comment: Acutally, it's not an afront to their religion. They drink fermented milk and honey. The Quaran simply says they can't drink alcohol made from grain. And yeah, pink, you are kind of a religious nut job

    • Posted By: Noliving @ 06/22/2008 10:20:47 PM

      Comment: You do realize that alcohol is an afront to christianity, read the bible. The correct spelling in this case is their not there.

      • Posted By: dewcooper @ 06/23/2008 11:23:37 AM

        Comment: Alcohol is not an afront - didn't Christ turn water into the best wine? The Bible speaks against being drunk, in excess.

    • Posted By: fd3000 @ 06/22/2008 12:12:42 AM

      Comment: Note the lower case... We are not there to support t-h-e-r-e religion but we are there to spread freedom, to paraphrase our president. I never supported this war but I am glad to see a progressive side to Iraqi society. All we ever hear about are the religious freaks. Think if the world formed its opinion of the US based on stories of Westboro. My only question, Mr. Kaplow, is if these Iraqi progressives support a pullout of US troops or do they think it will erupt into a battle of extremists?

      • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/22/2008 10:35:30 AM

        Comment: sucide bomber, woman, today-told ya so!

      • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/22/2008 10:34:36 AM

        Comment: ya your right we did invade them, so they are ours to do with as we see fit, right? I might be a freak but not a religious one, but one forged from respect!

      • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/22/2008 10:30:29 AM

        Comment: so we walk in a respect is out the door cause it not our way but theres, no wounder they DO NOT WANT US THERE! A booze store is no different to them then a porn store next to a school to us-FAIR-NOT EVEN CLOSE!

  • Posted By: loriw @ 06/21/2008 10:27:54 PM

    Comment: Geezz, I'm glad that our troops are over there helping them rebuild schools, hospitals and train their police so that their citizens can open booze stores. How about a good book store or grocery/market?
    My son-in-law is over there in the Green Zone...for what...this?
    Newsweak....can you at least give us an article with some real purpose to it?

    • Posted By: vango333 @ 06/22/2008 12:25:30 AM

      Comment: Isn't a "booze store", as you call it, just as important as a school or book store? This article isn't about booze, it's to show how their society is turning into something normal, even if it???s a slow progression, it is happening and this is the important part. Even though we don't see any mentions about schools or bookstores in this specific article they are happening every day, spend some time and do research Newsweek has covered it. No need to flame "Newsweak" for not covering your view points on how something you feel is more important.

    • Posted By: vango333 @ 06/22/2008 12:24:28 AM

      Comment: Isn't a "booze store", as you call it, just as important as a school or book store? This article isn't about booze though, it's to show how their society is turning into something normal, even if it???s a slow progression, it is happening and this is the important part. Even though we don't see any mentions about schools or bookstores in this article they are happening every day, spend some time and do research. No need to flame "Newsweak" for not covering your view points on how something you feel is more important.

      • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/22/2008 10:31:50 AM

        Comment: No a booze store is no different to them than a porn store next to a schoole to us, you do the math!

        • Posted By: DBachrach @ 06/23/2008 8:14:18 PM

          Comment: Actually pink, that's not true. Prior to us going into Iraq, liquor stores were a common site. Just as it's a common site to see Saudi's in Bahrain or the UAE boozing it up. Porn is hidden just the way alcohol is. It's there, they all know it's there, they just pretend it's not. Hell, even Iran religious leaders have been caught selling girls to the UAE and elsewhere as slaves/protitutes. Stop trying to shove your religous ideals down our throats.

 
 
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