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Subject: 
Not in my name!
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Date: 
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:28:04 GMT
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri022603.asp

Note that the LP has evinced some support for the antiwar movement,
including some activists marching in some of the same demonstrations that
this writer has profiled.

(see also: http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=630)

Not sure I agree with the LP stance here. While I oppose the coming war(1)
I'm not sure I want to associate with just anyone random that also does, for
whatever reason.

But then I don't always agree with Churchill, who supposedly once said "if
Hitler invaded hell, I would find something favorable to say about the
devil"... I very well might have left the USSR to its own devices during WW II.

Note: technically this "debate" is over already and I have "lost" since I
mentioned someone mentioning Hitler, and thus by transitive closure have
done so as well.

1 - for reasons that do not deny that Saddam is a fiend and mass murderer,
or even overlook it, as this lot does.

++Lar



Message has 2 Replies:
  no D-Day in '44? [was Re: Not in my name!]
 
(...) Churchill did say that the USSR "tore the guts out of the Nazi war machine". The USSR lost ~25-30,000,000 in WW2 [the USA lost ~140k in Europe]. Without the USSR, D-Day would never have happened in '44 as Germany would have had its best (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Not in my name!
 
(...) I hear you on this one. I would have marched in London if I hadn't been put off by the fact that a lot of the posters and stickers (indiscriminately illegally stuck onto adverts along escalators on the Underground) often said 'Don't Attack (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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