A different world?

I recently received junk email relating to the website Iraqiart.com. The fact that I've just used the phrase "relating to" reminds me of a conversation I had with Geoff recently which involved my sudden realisation that, if you count University (as Glanville Williams claims you should), I'm now into my ninth year as a "lawyer" and this has not had a wholly beneficial effect on my vocabulary or style of speaking/writing. I almost used the phrase "pursuant to" in normal conversation the other day... Iraqiart.com reminded me that although the Iraqis all have big black moustaches (irrespective, it seems, of age and gender) they do have art and maybe they aren't all that different from us after all. Sadeeka Al Mulaya is hardly Britney Spears and maybe bears more resemlance to a 65+ contemporary dancer but perhaps that's all the more reason to extend a little compassion to the citizens of Iraq rather than pummelling them with cruise missiles. But how similar really are they? Do their lawyers talk incomprehensible/noncommittal bollocks too after 9 years of being trained so to do? Does Saddam chastise his minions for having engaged in "not particularly joined-up thinking?" And do they refer to manky lever-arch files full of transaction documents as Korans?