How come all the cities in Iraq where there are explosions are always said to be "Holy Cities"?
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According to the US liberal media, whenever US Marines are duking it out with some terrorists in some Iraqi city, that city automatically becomes a "holy city."
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since the iraqi courts were considered unqualified to rule any case involving any act done by coalition forces and their allies.any member of these forces can shoot any thing he wishes without being asked.so,if any sargent on patrole thinks that a certain house is threat to him,or,if he recive even false informations,he can call for an air strike without taking the trouble of investigating wheather those are civilians,children,or women.honest or criminals.if you want to varify,see a movie made by the usa called (the making of an army).that wasnt the only incedent ,nor will be the last.many such bombings take place every day,but they are not reported.
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I see what you're saying. I wouldn't read too much into it, though. Perhaps Rev 18 broadly refers to the triumph of God over all who oppose Him. It certainly can't be applied UNIQUELY to the situation in Iraq.\n\nConsider the military base Nagasaki, that "the earth was lightened" (18:1) by the Little Boy atomic bomb.\n\nConsider also that there's no equivalent to 18:21, that a great stone will be cast into the sea. Also, that while violence cast down the site of Babylon, the Ishtar Gate, which once guarded the entrance to the city, now sits in Berlin at the Pergamon Museum.
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Two words from two different languages that mean the same thing. This is why Bush was told to stop using it after we first went into Iraq. Because when he used 'crusade' it meant a holy/ religious war. His administration knew that the American ppl would not follow that at all so they stopped him from using it.\n\nBUT, now we have all seen the truth! We all now know that was the real reason. This Iraqi war has been a religious war from the beginning.
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You live in peace only when you want that, now it seems iraqis don't want peace. Almost all bombings, kidnappings, beheadings and murders are done by iraqis, when they stop these you will live in peace.
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Currently, it's in Iraq.
716225
Well some people are more familiar with the Iraq. I for one am familiar with Iraq's history because my parents were born there and am Assyrian. Soldiers that serve in Iraq begin to appreciate the history others have learned about. Making their respect for Iraq's (Mesopotamia) history tangible.
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Arcane are you  crazy?  Their are a lot more modernized middle eastern countries that Iraq.  I have been to a couple different countries and I saw nothing that even Iraq.  You need to know what you are talking about before you start saying stuff like that.  One other thing I want to tell you about.  If the Iraqis didn't want us there all they had to do is run us out,  but they are going through what we did  in our civil war, Losing life's, homes, family and what not they know that it is a necessary evil but most of them are ready for a change.  There have been more business open up in the last year than any other year in their history.  Soon as they can show that their military is able and willing we will be out but no sooner.  It would be a disgrace to the US and its people if we left now and let total hell rain down upon them.
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Well christianity has always had a history of violence - actually more so than any other religion = even now Bush laid waste to hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq cause "God told him to"  no other religion can give you such a track record.
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It's Ashgabat (current spelling), also spelled Ashkhabad/Ashkhabat/Ashgabad.  Founded in 1883.  Destroyed by earthquake in 1948 (130,000 or more killed).\n\nGreat city!  If you ever have the chance - GO THERE!
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I actually saw a documentary on this, on the channel "Discovery Civilizations".\n\nBasically, it said the whole area is tectonically unstable and laced with pockets of underground gas.  There was an earthquake, that resulted in liquefaction of the sands, and the entire cities slid right into the sea.  The fires were the result of friction lighting the gas pockets on fire.   \n\nIt would have been horrifying to behold.
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yes, both the cities remained as lessons at the cost of lives.infact the so called superpowers never knew that the cosequence of n-bomb would be so dastarous.\n\nThough its a hard ,distarous and a costly lesson it became probally the last nuclear warefare.because the world learnt that n-bombs are just like suicide attacks where both the killer and the killed are no more while putting the biosphere at stake
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sinna?.. i assume you mean "sunni".. probably because they are the people who ruled iraq with an iron fist for the past 25 years..
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I agree that this is obvious.  Iraq was probably the hegemon in the Middle East before the US invasion, though Iran had already been clamoring for increased power and influence in the region.  Now that Iraq has fallen into great turmoil, Iran now has an opportunity to increase its influence and establish itself as the leading Muslim nation, much as the US is considered the leading democratic nation.  Iran has much to gain from a destabilized Iraq, and is thus contributing to the violence through weapons sales.
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Personally, I do not have a definition for a “Civil War,” because I believe that such a thing does not exist. Now grant  it that war is an unavoidable thing on this earth, and that will probably never change. Yet, to call the deaths, torture, bombing, massacring, and hurting and capturing of innocent people “civil” is beyond me. The same to can be said about the whole notion of a “Holy War.” There is nothing holy in war at all - even if it is for a particular belief.
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AMARRA, Iraq - Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds thronged the streets, militiamen attacked Sunni mosques, and at least 19 people were killed. With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, some Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame. The violence many of the 90 attacks on Sunni mosques were carried out by Shiite militias seemed to push Iraq closer to all-out civil war than at any point in the three years since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein. \n\nMany followed Hitler blindly to their death. Yes Iraq in Civil War? Iraq and VietNam are the same.
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Israel is the Holy Land and Jerusalem is the Holy City. It is so because it is the promised land and the land where Christ was born and the land where the first temple to Almighty God was built. Jerusalem is the city to where Christ will some day soon return. It is the land God has chosen for Himself and promised to the Jews. It is the Holy Land because it's where Christianity started. No, the Bible doesn't say what type of tree was used to make the cross of Christ. There are many fig trees, acacia trees and palm trees there so it would be difficult to even hazard a guess. Since God is holy and since His Son is holy, the land of God is also called the Holy Land. The Bible doesn't specifically call it that, as far as I know, but it does command the Jews to be a holy nation, as well as Christians.