Saturday, December 10, 2005

What do you call it

nooras thoughtsWhat do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people?
- A terrorist.
What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?
- A brave American pilot.
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What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land?
- A terrorist attack.
What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?
- Self-defense.
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What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- Bribery.
What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- A campaign contribution.
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What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens?
- A dictatorship.
What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings?
- A democracy.
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What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial?
- A lynching.
What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial?
- Operation Enduring Freedom.
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What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor?
- Robin Hood.
What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich?
- The US government.
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What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people?
- A weapon of mass destruction.
What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children?
- Sanctions.
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What do you call an army that will fight for whoever pays the most
money?
- Mercenaries.
What do you call an army in Afghanistan that will fight for whoever pays the most money?
- The Northern Alliance (or United Front).
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What do you call an attack on the Pentagon, a command and control center in the US?
- A cowardly attack on American freedom and democracy.
What do you call the destruction of an Afghan village by US bombs?
- An attack on a Taliban command and control center.
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What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US?
- An atrocity.
What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war?
- A mistake.
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What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people?
- Greed and selfishness.
What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries?
- Globalization.
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What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economical and social life of a country?
- A colonialist power.
What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economical and social life of a country?
- The International Monetary Fund.
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What do you call it when people are slaughtered?
- A massacre.
What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi's are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)?
- The Gulf War.
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What do you call the extermination of a people?
- Genocide.
What do you call the extermination of native Americans in the US?
- A glorious episode in American history.
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What do you call a US president who says, "Read my lips - no new taxes", and later breaks his promise?
- George Bush.
What do you call a US president who says, "No new taxes- over my dead body", and later ...?
- George W. Bush.
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What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd and tells stories?
- An entertainer.
What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd at the Pentagon and tells stories?
- Donald Rumsfeld.
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What do you call a television station that broadcasts only the government's views?
- A propaganda station.
What do you call the BBC when the World News consists solely of half an hour of a Pentagon briefing?
- Fair and impartial.
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What do you call the 2002 presidential election in Zimbabwe where there are serious irregularities?
- A flawed election.
What do you call the presidential election in the US where there are serious irregularities?
- A victory for democracy.
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What do you call it when American Whites advocate an exclusively White state and the expulsion of all non-Whites?
- Racism.
What do you call it when Israeli Jews advocate an exclusively Jewish state and the expulsion of all non-Jews?
- Zionism.


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