Still, we were talking about US (by which I mean the administration) insistence a while back that US soldiers be immune from prosecution for war crimes. Surely you have to see that in the circumstances this leaves the US (by which I mean the country this time) open to a certain amount of jeering, "suuure it's a few isolated instances" and the like.
Dana
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>From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 6:52 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Re: Animals. Those service men and women were animals.
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>Where to begin.
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>Jim, I don't think Gel is talking about the God of all Americans, just the
>one of George Bush and his henchmen. I leave it to someone else to work out
>whether he is being overly harsh; I am not very fond of big-daddy jingoistic
>gods either, as I am sure you have all gathered.
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> No, I'm sure he wasn't. still, the message ground like a stone.
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>For somebody who spends as much time as 'Gel does with such a diverse group
>of Americans as this it was like a slap in the face to read such a blatantly
>myopic view of us (or is that "U.S.")
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>I don't like aspects of my country or its current leadership, but those
>aspects are not the sum total of my country nor representative of all its
>people as 'Gel intimated in that message. It wasn't the attack on religion
>or public policy, it was the ubiquity of the statement from somebody that
>should damn well know better.
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>Jim Davis
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