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2003-03-05 Iraq

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Posted by Mike 2003-03-05 02:17 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't ridicule them too much. Maybe many of them just wanted to avoid instant martyrdom inflicted by Saddam's thugs.
It's interesting that they were clad in white. They might need the cloth in a few weeks. For waving.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-03-05 14:55:01|| 2003-03-05 14:55:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Bedsheets probably. Now they can go home and put them back on the beds. And then hide under them.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-05 15:07:52|| 2003-03-05 15:07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 no, white is the color of a burial shroud. this is standard practice in parades like this. OFten the marchers will be wrapped very similarly with how they would be buried. (making concessions for mobility to march ofcourse) Not sure wether there's any kind of purity symbolism there with the color choice, but it's supposed to indicate a preparedness for death.

-DS
"the horns hold up the halo"

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-03-05 15:34:45|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-03-05 15:34:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I very much doubt that they were all willing participants, Saddam prolly has their families hostage...

Posted by seafarious 2003-03-05 15:43:21|| 2003-03-05 15:43:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Or perhaps they're "criminals" who were offered a choice between death by slow torture and an "honorable" fate.

Posted by jrosevear 2003-03-05 15:58:31|| 2003-03-05 15:58:31|| Front Page Top

#6 You don't suppose there with the KKK , what with all them white robes an all, God help em if Jesse Jackson gets wind of em!

Posted by Wills 2003-03-05 16:04:54|| 2003-03-05 16:04:54|| Front Page Top

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