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Until it Feels Good (Cornell Prof: American troops are "legitimate targets," hopes we lose Iraq)
Copyright © 2004 by The Cornell Daily Sun, Inc. ^
| 3/17/04
| By ELLIOTT MARC DAVIS
Posted on 03/17/2004 5:24:56 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA NY-[Cornell Visiting]Professor John Pilger told Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewer Tony Jones that he hopes for a U.S. defeat in Iraq, because he's afraid that a victory in Iraq would prompt similar U.S. invasions of other countries, such as Iran, North Korea, and even China.
So basically, Pilger would like the Iraqi people -- a majority of whom state that things are better now than before the war -- to get screwed because a U.S. victory wouldn't suit his own political agenda.
But it gets worse:
Tony Jones: Can you approve ... the killing of American ... troops who are in the occupying forces?
John Pilger: Well yes, they're legitimate targets. They're illegally occupying a country. And I would have thought from an Iraqi's point of view they are legitimate targets, they'd have to be, sure.
Tony Jones: So ...troops you would regard in Iraq as legitimate targets?
John Pilger: I've just said that any foreign occupier of a country, military occupier, be they Germans in France, Americans in Vietnam ... wherever ... are legitimate targets
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Pilger presents two ideas: the occupation of Iraq is illegal and all foreign occupiers are legitimate targets of the local populace.
Deeming the occupation of Iraq "illegal" is most interesting. Indeed, even the U.N. has sanctioned the occupation, so I have no choice but to conclude that Pilger is either using the term "illegal" as a synonym for "I don't like it," or he is merely espousing the legal theories of the Taliban Sharia Council.
Pilger's sick moral relativism knows no bounds, going so far as to compare the occupation of Iraq -- whose aim is to establish a functioning society -- with a hypothetical Japanese occupation of Australia during World War II.
...before making any donations, Cornell seniors and alumni should take a moment and reflect on where their dollars are headed. There is no shame in saying that you would like to donate to the school, but simply cannot support an institution that provides a home for someone who legitimates the murder of American servicepeople in Iraq.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; cityofevil; cornell; ithaca; jihadinameric; jihadinamerica
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City of Evil bump
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Traitor. Traitor. Cornell is al Qaeda University in America.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:29:02 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Elliott Marc Davis is a senior in the College of Engineering. A small ray of hope.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:30:09 AM PST
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
So basically, Pilger would like the Iraqi people -- a majority of whom state that things are better now than before the war -- to get screwed because a U.S. victory wouldn't suit his own political agenda.Maybe Pilger preferred the way the UN starved Iraqis by mismanaging the corrupt Oil for Food program
Kerry, who loves the UN, might as well have said to Saddam's oppressed, "Let them eat Ketchup."
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:31:01 AM PST
by
syriacus
(Lend a moment of silence, for those who starved in Iraq, due to corrupt UN OIL FOR FOOD program)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Yeah, well, Big Red surely knew what it was getting when they brought Pilger and McKinney on board. That's why they brought them in, after all - so that The Bilgemeister and McNutty could represent the thinking of the administration, faculty, and staff. They - the administration - must be enormously pleased with themselves for their ability to turn the university into a soapbox for their personal political views.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:32:50 AM PST
by
general_re
(The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Wow. These libs are nuts....
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:34:10 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Pilger should have his wife confiscated and sent to North Korea to join one of KIJ's 'Joy Brigades'.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:34:37 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(!POT EHT OT PMUB)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If you want to contact Cornell University,
this link has their email address and telephone number.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:38:45 AM PST
by
Puzzleman
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I've just said that any foreign occupier of a country, military occupier, be they Germans in France,... What about Americans and British in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945... legal targets too? Can we extend to Mexicans in California? Nah... didn't think so.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:44:01 AM PST
by
C210N
To: Skooz
Until his jobs gets outsourced.
To: Behind Liberal Lines; All
Say Hello to the face of the treasonous Left folks.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:50:00 AM PST
by
faithincowboys
(Go to www.punditstar.blogspot.com)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I will never ubderstand those kind s of attitudes...Thanking God I was born, raised, and now live in the south
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:58:28 AM PST
by
dixierat
(Just a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing....(Merle Haggard))
To: All
What about Australians in Australia? Time for the bushmen to rise up.
Maybe the Greeks have a beef about Constantinople they'd like to address.
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:58:41 AM PST
by
Belisaurius
("Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Ted" - Joseph Kennedy 1958)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Pilger and pal.
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:00:39 AM PST
by
NativeNewYorker
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
John Pilger? I'm not surpirsed at anything he says as he is far left even by British standards. But why is he doing the visiting professor bit at Cornell?
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:03:08 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
John Pilger? I'm not surpirsed at anything he says as he is far left even by British standards. But why is he doing the visiting professor bit at Cornell?
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:03:43 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Elliott Marc Davis is to be congratulated for confronting evildoers such as John Pilger and all the other "I Hate America" crowd on our college campuses.
Please send an email to Elliott at
emd27@cornell.edu and encourage him to keep fighting the good fight.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
This must immediately be answered loud and clear.
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posted on
03/17/2004 6:15:46 AM PST
by
tkathy
(Our economy, our investments, and our jobs DEPEND on powerful national security.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
US Congress authorized the war. That means it's legal folks.
Sorry the UN isn't YET the global legislative body.
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