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Re: Palestinian human shields give Israel pause

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From: Jeffrey Turner
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:53
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Morton Davis wrote:
> "Disgruntled Customer" <nowhere@nowhow.com> wrote:
>>Suburbanaristic <yeah_uh-hu@wohoo.com> enscribed:
>>> Disgruntled Customer <nowhere@nowhow.com> wrote:
>>>>Suburbanaristic <yeah_uh-hu@wohoo.com> enscribed:
>>>>
>>>>>I wonder if those Palis ever considered doing something other than
>>>>>sitting around all day hating the Jew.
>>>>
>>>>They figured out how to run democratic elections. Unlike American
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> allies like
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>>>>Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi-Arabia. Maybe that's why the U.S. is trying
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> to ruin
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>>>>them, like Iran and Lebanon.
>>>
>>>They're doing a bang-up job with that democracy aren't they? Literally.
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>>I wonder what would have happened had America supported democracy instead
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> of immediately trying to overthrow it.
> 
> DEstroy it where?

Hawaii, 1893.  The Philippines, 1898-1905.  Puerto Rico, 1898.
Guatemala, 1954.  Iran, 1954.  Vietnam, 1956.  Chile, 1973.  Nicaragua,
1989.  Palestine, 2006.  And a whole lot of times and places in between.

--Jeff

-- 
War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
--Albert Einstein
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From: Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Palestinian human shields give Israel pause
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