From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 21:31:35 MST
A quick explanatory note... I think Damien was trying to point out that
comparisons between Jewish prisoners of the Nazis and Iraqi citizens under
Saddam Hussein are falacious, given the evidence of their behaviour compared
to predictions.
Emlyn
> --- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > At 09:56 PM 3/26/03 -0800, Cory Przybyla wrote that
> > he has:
> >
> > >no clue what Iraqis of any slant actually do feel
> > >about this war outside of the conflicting forces of
> > >the press, the government, and potentially fake
> > >web-logs. But certainly, they could view it, [as
> > >American imperialism, western islam-hatred,
> > >religious war, etc...]and [this]
> > >might shed some light on why US soldiers were
> > captured
> > >and held prisoner (and maybe tortured).
> >
> > I've been wondering how Jews in the Nazi camps would
> > have reacted had
> > Allied bombers and artillery unintentionally killed
> > a few hundred of the
> > survivors in setting them free. (For all I know this
> > actually happened.)
>
> For them to have an idea who bombed them, the captors
> would have shown some sign, running in a panic,
> setting up a defense, etc...maybe it would have even
>...
> > I
> > suspect they'd have regarded it as the tragic but
> > mysterious will of God,
> > and been grateful for their escape from Hitler and
> > his lunatics. The Iraqis
> > apparently aren't reacting that way *at all*.
> > Probably they're all paid
> > actors sworn to personal Hussein service.
>
> Does Iraq really have (errr, did...have) that much
> money? Certainly not all have been subjected to the
> brutalities? Wasn't the gassing directed at the
>...
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