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To: Rande Is who wrote (61)2/2/2003 3:46:49 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 627
 
Re: Those who would be so contemptuous as to dance on the warm graves of other human beings declare to all their own inhumanity.

Considering the circumstances, with 90,000 foreign aggressors with ill intent currently lined up on the sovereign borders of their nation, I'm inclined to cut the Iraqis some slack in the propaganda war. The term that comes to mind for this unfortunate statement is schadenfreude. It is common enough throughout history.

After listening to George Bush's blustering and belligerent rhetoric and lies about how evil the Hussein regime is, I'm seeing the Iraqi statement as remarkably mild. The hypocrisy of Americans who express great pleasure at the murder of innocents in Iraq but are revolted by this tame expression of rebuke by the Iraqis is an aspect of our national arrogance that I will never accept as being part of what makes America great.

Jabbar al-Quraishi would undoubtedly be singing a different tune if he weren't painfully aware that when former Secretary of State was asked about the willful murder of 100,000 of Iraqi innocents due to the U.S. imposed sanctions regime, she didn't deny the charge. She acknowledged this fact by say "it is an acceptable price to pay" for U.S. policy.

Should anyone be surprised that the Iraqis are little less than sympathetic to the U.S. government?

-Ray
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