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To: Hurtgen
Yours is the first intelligent comment on this thread.

If Congress can get irate about overseas events that happened almost 100 years ago, what's to stop some group of Native Americans from demanding reparations for the deaths of their ancestors in the 19th Century Indian wars?

What's past is past, except that which can still be changed. I believe there's plenty left from the early 20th Century -- Social Insecurity, ag subsidies, labor-favor laws, price supports, banking regulation, to name a few -- to keep Congress busy if they were in the mood to correct mistakes of our own government rather than lay a guilt trip on a country that's been a fairly reliable ally, blaming them for something no one alive is responsible for.

Surely Congress has more constructive things to do than pass non-binding resolutions of this nature.

115 posted on 10/10/2007 7:13:36 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: logician2u

NO reasonable person can compare what happened or did not happen to the native americans vs what happened to the Christians of Turkey.

To posit this fallacious argument is to undermine logic.


119 posted on 10/10/2007 8:29:59 PM PDT by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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