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To: drewh

Refresh my memory, what excuse did Hussein use for removing it in the first place?


31 posted on 11/14/2016 2:52:36 PM PST by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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President Obama Explains Why Winston Churchill’s Bust Was Removed From the Oval Office

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-explains-winston-churchills-bust-removed-oval/story?id=38602120


36 posted on 11/14/2016 2:53:55 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: cardinal4
Refresh my memory, what excuse did Hussein use for removing it in the first place?

Because he wanted to put MLK's bust in there, and having both would make the place "cluttered". As if it was a small room with limited space. Yes, I am being sarcastic.

53 posted on 11/14/2016 3:01:13 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: cardinal4

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

— Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
(My note. . .He was 25 years old at the time)


146 posted on 11/14/2016 4:24:12 PM PST by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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