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To: Qwinn
Please see my posts 88 and 95 - since you saw it, can you confirm the word "who" was used, instead of "which"?

I confess that I can't, but I think you might be nitpicking. Taken in context, her words were construed by at least two of us to mean that she sees moral equivalency between the U.S. military and Al Queda.

142 posted on 05/14/2004 6:54:38 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind

I'm nitpicking because it would make a significant difference in a trial for treason.

Questioning if an -act- by the U.S. was more or less evil than an -act- by Al Qaeda is one thing. Given the specifics, it's vile, loathsome and pathetic, but it's not treason.

Questioning if the U.S., as an entity, is more or less evil than Al Qaeda, whom we are at war with? Treason. Hands down.

Being able to "construe" the first as the second isn't enough. The wording would matter.

Qwinn


159 posted on 05/14/2004 7:57:23 AM PDT by Qwinn
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