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I remember having an argument with my Dad during the first Gulf War. I think there had been some school or something had been hit by shell fire, and I was my usual anti-war self. I'd made some comment about killing children and Dad said something on the lines of "They'd just grow up to be adult Iraqis".
To be fair to him he has mellowed somewhat over the years. He went off and read a bunch of stuff about Iraq's history and gained a different perspective. But Dad loses all sense of proportion where Moslems are concerned. He is very islamophobic. Comes from being raised in India I think. His sympathies were always with the Hindus, and he saw some appalling things before they left India as the violence began to escalate.
He's also quite homophobic...but I think he's closet gay himself, so that might be why.
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