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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5136)	3/29/2003 12:16:18 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 21614

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To: epicure who wrote (5136)	3/29/2003 12:24:24 PM
From: matthew (Hijacked)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

"In Iraq we are liberating Iraq from Iraqis" Has anyone asked the Iraqis if they regarded themselves as captives and wanted to be liberated?

To: epicure who wrote (5136)	3/31/2003 3:23:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 21614

Re: They may be awful Iraqis running Iraq, but they are still Iraqis- and I can't remember any country grateful for being liberated from it's indigenous ruler. There may be some country in which this happened, but I certainly can't think of it. Indeed... and the process of a country "liberated from its indigenous ruler" is commonly called a REVOLUTION. But then, most revolutions are "homemade": was the 1776 American Revolution fomented in France? Was the 1789 French Revolution plotted in Austria? what of the 1917 Russian revolution? and the 1979 Iranian revolution? Only the 1871 Paris Commune was somehow triggered by --and fed upon-- the war against Prussia... Gus