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@infidel2000bc
[Read the article: Will Wright hurt Obama's chances?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, since you have now brought in Nazis, it is pointless to talk to you. But, just for the record, every year at passover Jews remember how they were slaves in Egypt and were brought out of Egypt, given their laws in the desert, and brought to the promised land partly as a reward for being slaves unto pharoah. It is arguable that their being freed from slavery is the incident which largely defines who the Jewish people are. In other words, the power of slavery on a people should never be dismissed as off-handedly as you do. The effects arene't forgotten even MILLENIA after the fact. NEVER use Jews as a way of claiming slavery wasn't so bad and why can't blacks just get over it.
A racist and an anti-semite.
And I guess the fact that those 3000 people murdered on 9/11 have been used as an excuse to kill 10-100 times that many civilians in Iraq doesn't bother you very much. Not to mention the estimates of how many Iraqis had died before our latest invasion from the destruction we had caused to their infrastructure from the previous war and the years of sanctions. You probably cheered as we were bombing them over these last five years. Or what about your precious Reagan selling arms to Iran while supporting Saddam and supplying him with weapons of mass destruction? Most of Saddam's crimes were being actively supported by our two-faced government. Or our support of the Taliban and Osama in the early days.
Evil doesn't excuse evil... but evil gets evil back in kind and one shouldn't be all that surprised when the nasty, immoral, vicious people you were using to do your dirty work end up turning on you in the long run. Rabid dogs will bite their masters, and those who stir up hornets nests shouldn't be so surprised when they get stung. The people in the towers were murdered partly because of our own government's hubris.
Which is all Rev. Wright was saying, as far as I can tell.
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@infantile
[Read the article: Will Wright hurt Obama's chances?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What on earth are you talking about? Exactly how does our middle-east policy of supporting one radical islamic regime (Saudi Arabia, which is about as radical of an islamic state as any, and the fact that we are in bed with the Saudis is one of Osama's big beefs with us) over another is in any way shape or form equivalent to our involvement with WWII? Granted, much if not most of the reason the middle-east is a cesspool is because of colonialism and the fact that they were used as chess pieces in the cold war. If you voted for Reagan in 1980, you helped cause much of the current mess. Carter tried to get us to wean ourselves from mideast oil and then had to deal with the hostage crisis, which he did so successfully by freezing their assets, bringing all the hostages home safely. Contrast that with Reagan buying off Iran with weapons to free some hostages in Lebanon (while others died) and funneling the money to support terrorists in central America. This is what I call short sighted. For some reason, I think that if Carter had remained in office, we wouldn't be having many of the problems we are facing now.
I am a liberal== I am American. We are a Liberal country, based on liberal principles. And I assume you aren't from New Hampshire, since you obviously don't believe in the motto "Live Free or Die". Why do you hate America so much that you make fun of liberals?
And, by the way, if our country ever felt as publicly sorry for what we did to the Blacks and the Native Americans as the Germans, as a nation, do for what happened during WWII, it would help a lot towards healing the racial divide. On the other hand, there aren't really that many non-Germans of any type left in Germany, so maybe it is easier for them.
And no, I didn't cheer on Sept. 11. I just get very angry at ass-holes who use that as an excuse for wholesale slaughter rather than for asking ourselves what the hell has gone so wrong with our middle-east policy that there are dozens of lunatics running suicide missions against our people.