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Superbelt, first of all, I won't bother to read that NY Times article, because I have to subscribe to get it. I won't. Perhaps you could copy 'n paste some juicy bits?
Second of all, the thumbs up/thumbs down thing has been talked about many times before, and it's just bullocks. The Iraqis are happy, celebrating, and offering a thumbs up to US forces and foreign journalists. Are you suggesting that they're actually *not* happy, and that all that apparent emotional release is a ploy designed to appear happy, when they're actually insulting the US forces? Sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Stating that it *can be* obscene isn't enough to convince me that it actually *is* obscene. Given that they know we see it as positive, I could just as easily "proof" that they mean it in a positive way.
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