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Re: Why us? and if us, why this way?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:43:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> writes:
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> > It is all too easy to demonise France, China and Russia; but the
> > reality is that most nations are against this folly. As far as I
> > know, there are only two nations where the majority of the population
> > support the looming war: the USA and Israel.
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> I read in a newspaper the other day that, according to a poll, 42% of
> the US population thought that the reason for the plans for war against
> Iraq, was that Iraq was allegely behind the 911 attacks on WTC and
> Pentagon. If the result from this poll is indeed true, then it does
> worry me quite a bit.
I've heard figures like that, and you're absolutely correct that the trend
is worrying. Of similar concern is the tendency to group Saddam and al
Qaeda together simply because they can be broadly categorized at "Arabs who
hate the United States." That generic classification strikes me as veiled
(or, at best, naive) racism.
Dave!
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| (...) I read in a newspaper the other day that, according to a poll, 42% of the US population thought that the reason for the plans for war against Iraq, was that Iraq was allegely behind the 911 attacks on WTC and Pentagon. If the result from this (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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