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Deadly metaphor: Has an antiwar screed by a Beverly Hills sex therapist inflamed anti-American sentiment in the Islamic world — even inspiring terrorism? Yes, according to the Boston Globe. Susan Block, a California sex therapist who hosts a syndicated radio show and HBO's "Radio Sex TV," wrote an April 15 column titled "The Rape of Iraq" for the antiwar Web site Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org). The column used rather elaborate metaphorical language to compare the conquest of Baghdad to rape. Televised expressions of gratitude by the Iraqi people were being used to justify "the Anglo-American rape of Iraq," Miss Block wrote: "As...