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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: one_less who wrote (5377)3/10/2003 5:02:49 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
The word intolerant was used a while back to describe people who supported the use of force to remove Saddam and his regime from power. I think it was on the Bush thread.

You well know that a lot of crap gets said on these threads. People are not very precise in their use of language. It's hard to imagine anyone seriously thinking that Saddam's behavior is a matter for tolerance. The man is a certifiable pig.

If, OTOH, the point was that some war supporters are prejudiced against or dismissive of Arabs and/or Muslims, I think there's something to that, one of the many threads that runs through this complex issue. Or that some war supporters are intolerant of other cultures and want to rebuild Iraq and the rest of the Middle East in the image and likeness of the US. And I definitely think that some war supporters are hopelessly intolerant of peace proponents. Perhaps one of those was the context for the charge of intolerance rather than tolerance of Saddam's behavior.
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