Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:05 AM -0400 7/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > Have you added up all the Iraqi civilians killed by various
> > factions of Iraqi and non-Iraqi terrorists and compared the number
> > to that of Iraqi civilians killed by US and other foreign troops
> > who invaded and have occupied Iraq and by economic sanctions before
> > the invasion and occupation?
> >
> > Americans who vote for John Kerry who will be the next POTUS, aka
> > the biggest terrorist and war criminal, have no moral standing to
> > pretend to be appalled by un-American terrorists.
> >
> > Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral
> > standing to criticize foreign terrorists.
>
> What a load of crap. Elections are about contesting for power, and
> often involve debased compromises; votes aren't symptoms of moral
> purity.
>
> And why is it impossible to hold two thoughts in mind at once? The
> sanctions were murderous and the war a horrible crime. There's no
> doubt that the U.S. and its very junior partners have killed far
> more Iraqi civilians than the "resistance." But there are some
> people on the western left - some of them members of PEN-L, even -
> who can't acknowledge that a lot of the Iraqi "resistance" consists
> of jihadists and unreconstructed Saddamites, i.e., absolutely awful
> forces.
>
> As Christian Parenti said when he returned from his first trip to
> Iraq - there's no way anything good can come of this.
>
> Doug

You have no moral right to be acting superior to terrorists, since
you intend to vote for one.
--
Yoshie

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