--- Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 03:32 pm, Zoki wrote: > > *** Somebody has been talking about the US constitution, its > democratic > > values and the right for free speech on this list I think. Here's a > sad > > example of how free you are when dealing with the Bush > administration: > > > > http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,896573,00.html > > > > I can't begin to say whether any of this is true or not. There are > many > Americans (by no means a majority) who've been interested in bringing > the > American troops home for a long time. > > There is also a movement afoot (nothing significant yet) to organize a > boycott > of French and German goods.
References? > > A great many patriotic (not jingoistic) Americans believe that the > Germans and > the French respect Americans only when we are saving their butts or > providing > them an economic benefit. Said patriotic Americans feel that the > French and > Germans are knifing us in the back. Many of these same patriotic > Americans > firmly believe that the Peace demonstrators are effectively supporint > Sadaam > Hussein. References? > > I'm not saying that I back all this, but that's the way sentiment is > running. References? > On the other hand, there appears to be a strong belief in France and > Germany > and even Britain that the European view on the looming war with Iraq > is the > only correct view and that Americans should structure their political > decisions whatever way the Europeans say. Such an attitude just > smiply > enrages not only jingoistic Americans. References? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
