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To: ConservativeAllTheWay
"Just wondering: If America can bomb the hell out of a small, weak country that has never attacked us, is it all right for someone to destroy us just because they think we might someday attack them?"

What country would that be? Afghanistan? Remember 9-11? Iraq? Is a direct attack on the United States the only evidence of a threat that must be dealt with? Was Saddam's Iraq a "small weak country?" Ask the Kurds who were gassed, or the Shiites who were slaughtered. You might even ask your leftist media gods, such as Robert Fisk and John Pilger, who carried on constantly about the invincible might of the "battle-hardened" Iraqi forces before that particular big lie joined so many others on the ashheap of media power.

Nazi Germany did not attack the United States at the beginning of World War 2. The very same absurdly loaded question you have asked me was asked by Nazi sympathizers during the war, and by some to this day. How would you personally benefit from having Saddam in power? Did he buy your support, as he did so many others, or do you sell your soul for free?

39 posted on 08/20/2005 3:38:59 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (This message prepared with MS-CBS Word 72 software)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Rhetorical and linguistic clues suggest that "Conservative all the way" is not even an American, let alone a conservative. Phrases like "if America can bomb" represent a style of usage and extreme generalization that passed out of common use on this side of the pond some years ago, even on the far left. Nevertheless, they are a staple among the British left and its colonial offshoots in Canada and Australia, to say nothing of Helengrad (aka "New Zealand"). This exact phrase, "if America can bomb a small, weak country", was used many times by pro-Hanoi activists in Australia during the Vietnam war.


46 posted on 08/20/2005 3:47:18 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (This message prepared with MS-CBS Word 72 software)
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