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To: Suma who wrote (12664)	2/18/2006 4:13:31 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541649

Should have attached this to last post. Robert Fisk is the author of that review on his book. Here is another person seeking the Truth.. Can you believe this ? Amazing..

To: Suma who wrote (12664)	2/18/2006 4:16:16 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541649

this tsunami of a book quickly develops into a fierce indictment of Britain and the United States, lumped together as “Anglo-Saxons”, as the principal sources of evil in the world during the past 100 years What a completely absurd proposition.

To: Suma who wrote (12664)	2/27/2006 4:32:52 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541649

This thread is supposed to be moderate. You just posted some right-wing drivel, really not in the spirit of this thread. For example: First, he claims that Saddam Hussein was installed and maintained in power by the “Anglo-Saxons” although neither Britain nor the United States played any role in the Ba’athist coup in 1968. In fact between 1958 and 1984 the US didn’t even have an ambassador in Baghdad. This is ridiculous, bordering on comedy. As if the CIA waits for official relations with a country before beginning to subvert that country? LOL! If we were to believe Fisk, almost all British and American leaders since 1914 have been guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Obviously, Fisk is telling the truth. The author is writing for an ignorant right-wing audience, so he can just reprint Fisk's statements and his audience will think they are false (and thus think that Fisk is nutty). But this thread does not have an ignorant right-wing audience. Tom

To: Suma who wrote (12664)	2/27/2006 7:16:25 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541649

Starting as the memoirs of a veteran reporter covering the Middle East, this tsunami of a book quickly develops into a fierce indictment of Britain and the United States, lumped together as “Anglo-Saxons”, as the principal sources of evil in the world during the past 100 years. I don't know who Amir Taheri is, as the reviewer of this book, but the argument of the book is quite different. It's rather a one person narrative of the suffering of that portion of the globe in the past forty years with more than enough blame to go around for everyone. There are problems with the book, not least of which is his organization. He rambles a lot and can't keep a focus. But as reportial first hand accounts, it's very hard to beat this.