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blogslut

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Wed Sep-27-06 11:48 AM
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Babylon is Back?

Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 11:48 AM by blogslut

That's the teaser headline on CNN right now. Supposedly a story on how this ancient site has been re-opened to the tourist public. No symbolism there at all.

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seemslikeadream

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Wed Sep-27-06 11:53 AM
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1. oh I thought you were talking about America!

The richest man in babylon

There is no quidance in your kingdom
Your wicked walk in Babylon
There is no wisdom to your freedom
The richest man in babylon

Your beggars sleep outside your doorway
Your prophets leave to wonder on
You fall asleep at night with worry
The saddest man in Babylon

The wicked stench of exploitation
Hangs in the air and lingers on
Beneath the praise and admiration
The weakest man in Babylon

There is no hope left in your kingdom
Your servants have burned all their songs
Nobody here remembers freedom
The richest man in Babylon

Si la lou babylon go 'dain
Babylon gon' be rich again
But to we don' sick again
But no we no weak again
Babyloooon on on on on
(Rasta scat)
Sal la lou ca uba whoa
Si la douba douba do wa bay
??
Si la loo babylon come 'round
You better know you better understand
'Fact you know you better hear what they say
Babylon this is your final day
Babylon this is your final call
Read the writin' it's on the wall
Said United we stand
And together we fall
And if I know that
You're not 'gon catch me in a rat pack
We not go fallin' on your death trap
No way...

Whoooooa oh oh oh oh whoa oh who oh oh
Whooooooa oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh o oh

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Sep-27-06 12:12 PM
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2. It would have been perfectly safe to visit that site back in the Saddam

days. Now, don't you still have to get some kind of charter flight from Jordan flown with South African
bush pilots in the middle of the night just to get there? And isn't it almost impossible to get permission to go to Iraq?

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Liberal Dose

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Wed Sep-27-06 12:32 PM
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3. Didn't Saddam try to rebuild the Tower of Babel? I remember watching

something on the Discovery channel years ago concerning this. Seems he was trying to accelerate some prophecies from the book of Revelations to make it look like Armageddon was just around the corner. :shrug:

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blogslut

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Wed Sep-27-06 01:43 PM
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4. not sure

I do know that our armed forces pissed off a lot of people when they set up a base there and destroyed some of the oldest ruins in human history.

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