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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:32:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> Scott A wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > > ...and 10 years after the event Saddam Hussein is being _investigated_ for
> > > > war crimes
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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 gassed their villages in 1989). But there's no justice in making
> > > the Iraqis (especially children) suffer and die under these inhumane sanctions.
> > > There is no way those poor people can overthrow him. He's like the boogieman.
> > > The Kurds tried to right after the Gulf War, as urged by George Bush, but then
> > > America backstabbed them and let them get slaughtered.
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> > Ah. But a certain NATO country is no friend to the kurds either.
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> > Scott A
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> Kurdish people not equal to PKK just like Irish people not not equal to
> IRA. I hope this would help. And if the film "In The Name of My Father"
> (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107207) has any truth in it,
From imdb:
Factual errors: The Guildford 4 & the Maguire 7 were not tried in the same
court simultaneously.
Factual errors: Guiseppe Conlon & Gerry were never in the same prison.
> it is sometimes
> quite difficult to separate one from the other, huh?
It must be:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_885000/885270.stm
The differnce is that the public in the UK expect even convicted murderers
to be treated as humans... not murdered raped or tortured. Sure, the police
do not always do it. Sure there have been mistakes. But the public expects
it... or at least I do.
Scott A
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> Selçuk
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> > > > I shall sleep well tonight knowing that Scotland Yard is on the case.
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> > > Hah! :)
> > >
> > > Dan
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| (...) Sorry, but both of these were not the main idea behind the film, if I got it correctly. Besides the film was not the main subject here. (...) So at least you already got the main idea, partially..:-) And believe me, public DOES NOT always (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Kurdish people not equal to PKK just like Irish people not not equal to IRA. I hope this would help. And if the film "In The Name of My Father" ((URL) has any truth in it, it is sometimes quite difficult to separate one from the other, huh? (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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