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To: AmericanInTokyo
How horrible! I have a friend who lives in Jakarta. She blamed Bali on Bush's agenda. I honestly will NEVER understand Demoncrats! I told Patsy that Bush's agenda is to get rid of terrorism. She is so liberal that she doesn't understand!
3 posted on 11/18/2002 2:42:56 PM PST by buffyt
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To: buffyt
Sorry to say, but your friend sounds like a patsy.
7 posted on 11/18/2002 2:45:00 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: buffyt
Maybe she will come around when it hits home...
10 posted on 11/18/2002 2:46:50 PM PST by The Vast Right Wing
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To: buffyt
She is so liberal that she doesn't understand

She's just following her programming. We have liberal robots in the US as well. There isn't much hope they'll ever come to life. We just have to ignore them.

14 posted on 11/18/2002 2:48:59 PM PST by concerned about politics
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To: buffyt
I used to have a liberal friend....she often used the phrase "blame the victim" & how terrible that was & how society did that so often..

Maybe you can try this idea with your friend, and it'll resonate with her!

21 posted on 11/18/2002 2:51:11 PM PST by Molly Pitcher
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To: buffyt
Does she also think we can appease the terrorists so that they won't kill us? If so, how easily she gives over her freedom.

What would be required next for them not to kill us?
24 posted on 11/18/2002 2:52:59 PM PST by ClancyJ
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To: buffyt
They were killing Christians, westerners, and Americans in Indonesia before GWBush. He's the one who decided to do something about it.
72 posted on 11/18/2002 3:35:41 PM PST by xzins
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To: buffyt
How horrible! I have a friend who lives in Jakarta. She blamed Bali on Bush's agenda. I honestly will NEVER understand Demoncrats! I told Patsy that Bush's agenda is to get rid of terrorism. She is so liberal that she doesn't understand!

Except that Bin Laden et al started their war when Clinton was president (who was not particularly active against them). Except that they don't care who is president so long as they can kill him. Except that what they are about has nothing to do with any American policy so long as the American polity and that Israel and the (post) Christian West is destroyed.

117 posted on 11/18/2002 5:33:27 PM PST by tlrugit
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To: buffyt
How horrible! I have a friend who lives in Jakarta. She blamed Bali on Bush's agenda.

I have a friend that has similar views. Whenever he complains about the American government and the job Bush is doing I tell him to move out of the country. His reply?

"Living in another country having to deal with American foreign policy is even worse"

Some people you just can not reach!!!!!

120 posted on 11/18/2002 5:50:22 PM PST by Mixer
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To: buffyt
She is so liberal that she doesn't understand!

I have some liberal friends who take the same point of view that she does. It's not that they don't understand, it's that they don't want to understand.

Mean, bad people are "us" rather than "them" because, after all, it is easier to deal with us instead of them. So if we just pretend that all of the world's problems are because of our own internal politics we can just vote probelms away. That would be a safer and less scary world.

The Lefties want to live in a safe world so badly that they would give up their safty to preserve the illusion of a safe world.

150 posted on 11/19/2002 12:06:10 AM PST by powderhorn
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To: buffyt
I have a friend who lives in Jakarta. She blamed Bali on Bush's agenda.

She's gone native.

What I mean is that she's gone native in the context of the (non-military) expat community. NGOs, charities, journos, church groups. All infested by leftie America haters. To "survive" in such an environment, you're either constantly deferring to political discussions ("I don't have any political opinions") or simply mouthing the phrases of these people as an automated response.

Personally, when working overseas I found myself being constantly grilled about American foreign policy by leftie Americans, Brits, Germans, and French, sometimes in a fairly aggressive manner. I'd try to defer, but if they kept it up I'd apprise them of things like 1776, WWI, and WWII.

I even said "Seig Heil" once to a German who was ranting about Americans being "controlled by the Jews." He'd spent enough time around Americans to know he'd crossed the line.

154 posted on 11/19/2002 3:29:42 AM PST by angkor
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To: buffyt
To rid the world of terrorism or to grab all of its oil/redraw Middle East boarders under the pretext of terrorism?
178 posted on 11/19/2002 1:04:49 PM PST by droberts
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