Re: The Iraq war was extropian? Re: [Iraq] The real reason for the war

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:20:56 MDT

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    "Paul Grant" <shade999@optonline.net>

    > > >There's documented proof all over the place of Israeli's human rights
    > > >violations

    >>Me:
    > > Sure there is, big deal.

    > "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>

    > Big Deal??!!!

    Correct, big deal.

    >This is the most cynical uncaring thing you could possibly say.

    Mr. Grant proposed a hypothesis to explain the extraordinary volcanic anger
    in virtually every Islamic community on Earth, a rage so great they hate us
    more than they love life, he said it was caused by a few small scale run of
    the mill atrocities, the sort of thing that, unfortunately, you see every
    day on this troubled planet. I thought the hypothesis was ridiculous then
    and I still do. An extraordinary effect needs a extraordinary cause and
    Mr. Grant did not provide one.

    >One of the major justifciations for the invasion of Iraq and outster of
    >Saddam was his human rights violations and violations of
    >UN sanctions. Israel has many times as many UN sanction violations

    I don't know it it's true that Israel has had many times as many UN human
    rights violations as Saddam's Iraq but if it is it speaks volumes about the
    mind numbing incompetence of the UN; but what else would you expect from an
    organization that thinks the best country to chair its human rights
    commission is Libya?

    > What would you feel but rage when your people are oppressed for 50
    >years or a subset of your people are so oppressed

    Lets see, if I were a Moslem man in Indonesia or Malaysia or The Philippines
    and was dirt poor, uneducated and commanded by a venal corrupt government
    how would I feel about the oppression of a tiny group of people 10,000 miles
    away that I have never see by another group of people that I have also never
    seen? Well, my primary reaction would be of boredom, yet you claim this is
    the reason they're in a suicidal murderous frenzy just as the Arabs are.
    Baloney.

    >You also need to stop blaming the entire Arab/Muslim world for one
    >terrorist incident.

    Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play?

        John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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