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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (10085)	8/4/2006 3:15:45 PM
From: seventh_son	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37274

Source for this please? Pretty hard for me to fathom characterizing Hezbollah as such a serious threat as to compare it in any way to Hitler. These terrible rockets of theirs have only killed 1/20th of the cilivians that the Israeli army has killed using latest technology, precision-guided weapons. And if Israel has such great bomb shelters, why the great worry for them of Hezbollah and its rockets, worth invading and destroying a country over? Also, while it is constantly repeated that the Israelis say they are trying so hard not to kill civilians, other reports indicate Hezbollah is paranoid about spies and therefore stays away from civilians. Reports from Red Cross workers, who one would assume are more reliable than the Israeli military (who keep feeding us one whopper after another -- the incursion being about freeing hostages, etc), indicated no Hezbollah activity around the apartment building where 60 mostly women and children were recently killed, for example. ipsnews.net Today -- 33 Kurdish farm workers killed. Also, Christian areas of Beirut are now being bombed. And who is being appeased in all this? Israel got a blank cheque on this incursion from the US, and is using it to full effect. Simply put, Israel, and the US for that matter, do not merely claim the right to self-defense. They claim the right to invincibility -- that is to say, they will do what they want to do, and any group or country who even thinks of opposing them with any force or having the capability of doing so is in for destruction. While anyone has a right to self defense, including the Lebanese, who are seeing their country attacked quite apart from Hezbollah, I think it frightening that anyone should exercise the right to invincibility.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (10085)	8/4/2006 3:44:58 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37274

In contrast to Prime Minister Harper’s moral clarity, we now hear former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence, Bill Graham, tell the Guardian newspaper on July 18, "Mr. Harper is proud of the fact he wasn't nuanced … Nuance has kept us in a position where we could help.” Perhaps Mr Graham could explain exactly what they were thinking when he and Pauly Pockets decided after underfunding the Canadian Military for years to put them in the lead position in Afghanistan. Since Mr Graham was part of the decision to put Canadian Troops in this position in Afghanistan he should be hanging his head in the shame of his act. Imagine trying to sabotage an incoming Government with the blood of Canadian Soldiers.