[78-L] One person's opinions...?!^

[Bud Black]

Actually, people who live in glass houses shouldn't!

Bud 
 
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From: simmonssomer
Date: 1/24/2009 11:53:29 AM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] One person's opinions...?!^
 
Alexandre....How about the lengthy French colonial occupation of Vietnam?
That's how that whole mess began!
...and have we forgotten who finally rescued the trapped French troops over
there?
People in glass houses should not throw stones!
 
Al Simmons
 
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From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] One person's opinions...?!^
 
 
> Alexandre Benoit wrote:
>
>> It's amazing how intense the discussion can be in the US-American public
>> about
>> political correctness. But that's only about words (Yes, they can hurt, I
>> know).
>>
>> How about the recent US wars, including Vietnam? All undeclared and thus
>> illegal,
>> therefore crimes of war. Think about 300,000 civilians killed by
>> US-Americans in I**q.
>> Never mind political correctness in words.
>>
>> It's about time we get some 'Magnificent Seven' who stop the Bully of the
>> Globe.
>> Is Obama one of them?
>>
>> Alex
> =====================
> I remember the US government describing their intervention in Vietnam as
> "a police action" to get round the illegality of it. But war is war,
> with all its suffering, whether declared or otherwise.
>
> Regarding Afghanistan, there was a news item, I believe in a Belgium
> newspaper a couple of years ago, about how much more humane the newly
> installed government there had become--they were going to use smaller
> stones to kill so-called wrongdoers. Unfortunately, capitalism throws up
> madnesses like this and 9/11, Rwanda, Nazism, apartheid etc, along with
> boom and bust, and will continue to do so as long as it remains in
> existence.
>
>       Julian Vein
>
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