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   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:21:25 UTC, Larry Swain    
   wrote:   
      
   > Dan Drake wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:44 UTC, Larry Swain    
   > > wrote:   
   > ...   
   > >>...  Seeing orcs as Muslims seems to me   
   > >>to be as much a misreading as that (or as seeing the recent movie The   
   > >>300 as an anti-Iranian Bush administration diatribe).   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > (Have you told the bloggers who LOVE that movie that they're seeing it all   
   > > wrong? :)   
   > >   
   > >   
   > Or were you talking about The 300?  There are bloggers who love the   
   > movie who think that The 300 is a anti-Iranian Bush diatribe?  Point me   
   > to some and I'd be glad to tell them they're seeing it all wrong.   
      
   Yes, that was it. I'll point to Victor Davis Hanson, the classicist and   
   op-ed writer, who was widely cited in that opinion a couple of weeks ago.   
   Except of course that anti-Iranian Bush diatribe is not the way they put   
   it, as they approve of it.   
      
      
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