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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:35:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > I find it very ironic that a whole nation apparently solemnly commemorates
> > the WW2 persecution when they themselves are current persecutors. Very ironic.
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> > I note that there is currently an economic blockade of Gaza and the West Bank:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1294000/1294004.stm
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> And their are numerous United Nations resolutions against Israel for their
> invasions and occupation of land in Egypt, Syria and Lebenon and their
> occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
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> On a side note: the USA still maintains sanctions against Cuba, really for no
> good reason other than because the Cold War generation is still ticked off at
> Castro for kicking them out of their Havana hideaways.
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> The United Nations (with USA, Britain and Israel holding the puppet strings)
> have maintained crippling sanctions against Iraq for over 10 years. Over
> 500,000 children have died because the sanctions severely limit or refuse
> medication and vaccinations. Supposedly, the sanctions are meant to limit
> Saddam Hussein's ability to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, but of
> course that's hogwash. The sanctions are the real weapons of mass destruction
> since they only strengthen Hussein's death grip on the Iraqi people.
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> Dan
...and 10 years after the event Saddam Hussein is being _investigated_ for
war crimes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1295000/1295608.stm
I shall sleep well tonight knowing that Scotland Yard is on the case.
Scott A
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| (...) What's to investigate, it's like discovering that bears poop in the woods. The man (and I use word that in only the biological sense) is the scum of the earth. He has been killing off the marsh Arabs in the south and the Kurds in the north (he (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) invasions and occupation of land in Egypt, Syria and Lebenon and their occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. On a side note: the USA still maintains sanctions against Cuba, really for no good reason other than because the Cold War generation (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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