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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here's another to add to your list.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362891/posts


6 posted on 03/14/2005 7:53:10 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly

Okay, Wikipedia says that the total population of Beirut is somewhere between 1.8 and 2.1 million, depending on whether or not you count the suburbs. Lebanon itself has only got 3.7 million people total.

So that's right around ONE QUARTER OF THE TOTAL POPULATION of the country who thought it was worth their time to take the day off of work or school or whatever, drive downtown, try to find parking, and yell their lungs out with 999,999 of their closest friends, just to send a friendly message to Bashar Assad that he should sod off and die or something.

I live in the fourth-largest city in Japan, Kyoto, total population about 1.5 million. I can't imagine anything that would make one-third of the people here all go to one place and holler like a bunch of rednecks, unless the Hanshin Tigers won the pennant again.

Man, these people REALLY want to be free, God bless 'em.


9 posted on 03/14/2005 8:02:39 PM PST by Father Jack (Confused, Stupid, and Documented)
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To: GoLightly

Thank You!


12 posted on 03/14/2005 8:06:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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