No organisation has in all seriousness advocated the straw men the IoD have constructed, leading to a wrong headed attack that adds nothing to the debate.

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Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention belonged to straw men and a strong woman.

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If that is the case, he does nothing to prove they are straw men.

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Speaking earlier on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Straw said the government was seeking reports into the conditions in which the men were being held.

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He saw this Mexico as if it were the backdrop of a movie on afternoon TV, where children walked around barefoot in the dirt or on broken sidewalks and small men wore wide-brimmed straw hats and baggy white shirts and pants.

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Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.

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