To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.debateOpen lugnet.off-topic.debate in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Debate / 24637
24636  |  24638
Subject: 
Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:35:41 GMT
Viewed: 
967 times
  
Seriously, was he any worse in 2003 than some of the human rights abusers Bush
supports today? I’m talking about countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.

Are you saying that if Saudi Arabia, Israel, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan throw
people off a cliff that makes it okay for Saddam to do so, too?  I take it,
though, that your answer is that you don't view Saddam's actions as "just".

Umm.. I think his concept is that if we overthrew Saddam b/c he was abusive to
his population, we should overthrow the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan as well.

If nothing else, it shows a lack of consistency in the values that Bush
supports.

_lenny



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
 
(...) If you'll modify that to "some" rather than "much", I'll agree (mostly support to him being a thorn in the side of Ayatollah wackos in Iran, but then, there's a certain sense of deja vu in the U.S. screwing around with things there, too). (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

120 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR