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Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
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Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:25:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
  
   But overthrowing Saddam in itself is not “unjust”.
Or are you saying that Saddam’s actions are “just”?

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?


No. I’m saying why oppose Saddam whilst supporting other problem countries.

Scott A

   I take it, though, that your answer is that you don’t view Saddam’s actions as “just”.

-->Bruce<--



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

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