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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:19 PM
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Why are Lebanese kids called "youths" - as in young adults?
Shades of the Iraqi "young woman".

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34 Youths Among 56 Dead in Israeli Strike
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2253746
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prole100 Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:21 PM
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1. Trying Not To Be PI Here - So They Can Be Demonized By TPTB
eom
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:22 PM
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2. OMFG -- that's incredible
The manipulation is utterly shameless.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:24 PM
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3. I thought the same thing when I saw the headline.
Why weren't they called "children"?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:25 PM
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4. Marketting
Plain and simple. Wanna sell a war, don't let on children are being slaughter, or as in Iraq, raped.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:27 PM
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5. Youths are more violent than children nt
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:27 PM
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6. 'youths' can tote AK-47s, but 'children' are innocent by connotation
Kill 34 potentially-armed youths, and it plays as an anti-terrorist operation.

Kill 34 innocent children, and it becomes comparable to a terrorist operation.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 03:34 PM
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8. EXACTly. nt
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 02:44 PM
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7. "da two yoots" nt
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QuestionAll... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-30-06 03:35 PM
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9. "a one day old youth was killed in Qana earlier today,
amongst many of other youths of different youthful ages."

how freaking bizarre.
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