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Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
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Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:37:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote: --SNIP--
   Which is why, on a different note, I’m slightly infuriated when I hear from reporters and articles that the “US had no idea that starting the Iraqi war would lead to the quagmire that we’re all in now” or that “the US had no idea that war with Iraq would lead to more US animosity”

No, it wasn’t that the US had no idea, for I heard from many Americans that a war with Iraq would lead to the exact concequences that we face today, but in fact it was the US administration that was clueless. Let’s not place the blame on 300+ million people--let’s place it where it truly lies--the supposed leader and the rest of his inept administration.

But again, that’s just me.

But surely thats how democracy works. If you had no control over who was in power then you could have a right to say that its nothing to do with you, but that isn’t the case. (Don’t get me wrong, as an English person I have much the same feelings about our leadership)

Tim

  
Dave K



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  Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
 
(...) I'm saying that the people that are on the streets with the threatening of life and the shooting of guns in the air and aprtaking in 'violent demostrations' are the uncivilized people--it doesn't matter if they're muslim. christian, agnostic, (...) (18 years ago, 3-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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