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Re: Arrogance floats amongst the stars...
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Wed, 12 May 2004 15:44:49 GMT
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> I don't swear much, but this beheading just makes me seething with anger. He
> wasn't even a soldier for crying out loud.
I wonder if all the other unnecessary civilian deaths in Iraq make ordinary
Iraqis feel equally angry? I wonder if the light sentences purportedly being
dished out to those involved in the physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape and
murder within Bush's detention facilities also make ordinary Iraqis feel equally
angry?
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> See, it's the mentality--when you are born into and taught your entire lives
> that the 'infidels' are 'less than you', you can commit these heinous acts of
> barbarism and not even remotely consider that you're doing something wrong.
How does western media portray Arabs; does it suggest they are 'less than you'?
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> Do I have an solution? Do I have an answer? I know that the Americans have
> mismanaged this fiasco from the beginning, and every shred of evidence points to
> this mismanagement eminating from Dubya's administration. But what to do now?
> Now it's a totally differnt ball-game. We see the 'enemy' for what he really
> is--a spiteful, vengeful group of people who have *no* consideration for people
> who aren't them. Iraq isn't the issue. Iraqi people probably just want to go
> about their daily business and be left alone and let 'the powers that be' go do
> something else. But these extreme religious zealots who can hack off a person's
> head and hold it up for the world to see...
Whilst we watch in "shock and awe"(TM) as Iraqi civilians are killed on our TV
screens?
> that's an entirely different matter.
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> Anyway, too angry to make it more clear than that. I just have this quotation
> attributed to a Japanese general (and it ain't perfect to be sure, but you'll
> get the point)--"We did what we did for the good of our people, but I fear we
> have awoken a great beast"
Yeah, I've seen that movie too...
Scott A
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> You religious nuts--you ain't seen nothing yet--when America gets its back up,
> that's pretty much the ball game.
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> Dave K
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| (...) I wonder at what point does armageddon happen? (...) Good question. Though, for myself, I don't appreciate being dictated to, therefore I shall not dictate to others vis a vis spiritual beliefs, so my god maybe, well, God, but yours doesn't (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I'm almost at a loss for words. At a time when the world's (including many Americans, btw) opinion was against Bush and Co. for their mismanagement of the Iraqi situation, those stupid <insert expletive here> go do what they did. I don't swear much, (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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