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Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:35:41 GMT
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> > 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



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  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). (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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