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Iran outraged by Hollywood war epic
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| March 13, 2007
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Posted on 03/13/2007 12:10:04 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
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To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
"..showing their ancestors as bloodthirsty "savages"."
What ancestors? They should look at themselves now.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:30:13 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
So????? The truth hurts! Most regimes in those times were ruthless. Hell, even the Spartan's were tough on their own people.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:30:14 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Evidently the definition of "outrage" has changed considerably.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:30:40 PM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
If it pissed off Iran, then I'm going to go see it.
(Imagine the likes of Ahmadinejad protesting Hollywood's portrayal of Iranians as "barbarians")
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:30:46 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: Argus
Funny thing is, they're protesting a movie about a battle they won. It only took them 1000 to 1 odds to win.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:31:27 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: USMMA_83
I wasn't casting aspersions so much on Xerxes (accurate spelling), who wasn't exactly a pacifist, as I was referring to Haman, as referenced in the Book of Esther, and his plot to kill the Jews.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:33:30 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(ic.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Oh brother. It's just a movie, for goodness sake. And it's not about Iran, it's about the Ancient Persians. There's no reason for them to get so worked up.
When the Da Vinci Code movie came out, everyone said that Catholics should not get offended because it was only a movie. The Iranians should follow that same advice.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:33:43 PM PDT
by
blitzgig
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Hey, we might be bloodthirsty "savages", but our ancestors, thats over the line.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:38:11 PM PDT
by
HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
(All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.)
Comment #29 Removed by Moderator
To: pfony1
According to IMDB, that role was played by Andrew Tiernan. However, Murtha is playing that role in the US Congress, that compensates his absence from 300, doesn't it?
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:45:15 PM PDT
by
LtdGovt
("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:57:21 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 11/05/1979.)
To: 3AngelaD
"Number one: Their ancestors WERE blood-thirsty savages. Some things are slow to change." The Persians were most certainly not savages and their empire was the first truly international empire in history. Cryus the Great comissioned the world's first document on human rights.
http://www.farsinet.com/cyrus/
While it was a good thing for the West for the Spartans to have held off the Persians for as long as they did at Thermopylae, the Spartan culture would be considered more barbaric than that of the Persians. The state was supreme in Sparta. For example, families were not allowed to raise their children, and slaves greatly outnumbered the citizens. Sparta was considered a backward pariah state among ancient Greece whose only use was to keep Athens in check.
If only the Muslim government of Iran would follow the lead of its predecessors, then that country would be in much better shape today.
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:58:29 PM PDT
by
ValenB4
("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." - Isaac Asimov)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
TEHRAN (AFP) - War epic "300", a smash hit in the United States for its gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian warsThe Greco-Persina Wars were gory? What a surprise as back then one army had to impale its enemies with spears or hack them with swords and axes, or maybe just burn them. I'll bet the real thing was gory even beyond the imagination of Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez....
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:58:56 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
03/13/2007 12:59:53 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 11/05/1979.)
To: pfony1
Is it true that Jack Murtha played a "cameo role" in the film as Ephialtes? LOL!
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:01:40 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: ValenB4
Funny how we take so much from ancient Greece, almost all of it Athenian Greece, yet all the sports teams are Spartans....
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:05:13 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: ValenB4
Please see my post at number 26. Like every other civilization at that time, the Persians, the Greeks and especially the Spartans, the Egyptians, the Jews and the Romans to come were blood thirsty savages -- by modern standards. Yes, I admit I am guilty of a Whig interpretation of history. And I am familiar with the story of the Spartan boy.
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:05:54 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(ic.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Iran outraged by Hollywood war epic In other news, Iran outraged by puppies.
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”)
To: Rummyfan
Another good question is who plays Theron (the bought and paid for traitor in the ruling council) in the US Congress?
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:10:12 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: 3AngelaD
As Rush Limbaugh said earlier today, there is no historical evidence to prove that the Spartans went to war wearing leather Speedoes.
Well, it might have hurt the box office sales if they were nekkid like they were depicted in the comic book the movie was based on. I'll take the leather speedoes, thank you.
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posted on
03/13/2007 1:18:01 PM PDT
by
The Pack Knight
(Duty, Honor, Country. Gingrich/Bolton '08)
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