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Posted on 10/22/2007 3:42:08 PM PDT by hockeyfan
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.
"September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible," the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.
"Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she said in an interview published Sunday.
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No, we aren’t naive. We are just pretending for the benefit of the media.
What’s naive is that he thinks we give a flying f*** what he says....
Just another Euro-crank that, now that she won an award, is viewed as some modern day oracle. Yawn.
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