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   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   Dan Drake wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Can you be more specific?  I've looked over VDH's website and can't find   
   anywhere in his comments on The 300 where he equates the Persians with   
   modern Iranians, claims that the story is anti-Iranian, or that the   
   film/graphic novel illustrate the veracity of current US foreign policy.   
      
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