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Default Danish Counter-boycott

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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>
> Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> Boron Elgar > wrote in
>> :
>>
>> > remember well, this was
>> > .triggered by a newspaper printing cartoons - not a government
>> > printing them, not a political party doing it, not an official
>> > representative of anything whatsoever, but some small circulation
>> > newspaper in some small country...and look at what the result is -
>> > death and destruction.

>>
>> I am very much aware of that, and at least one Middle Eastern
>> government has apologized. Many governments were pursuing a diplomatic
>> solution since the publication which obviously Denmark ignored.
>> Perhaps this could have been resolved amicably much earlier and none of
>> this would have come to pass.
>>
>> http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/...06toon.leb.php
>>
>> > I do not care what the content of the cartoons were. I do not care
>> > what the purpose behind them was. The actions of the entire world
>> > cannot be controlled, compromised or based upon the beliefs of
>> > some subset of a religion. To think so and allow it sway is
>> > absurd, barbaric and unconscionable.

>>
>> Tell that to Bush. Obviously, that's his (or his advisors') agenda.

>
>
> Which has nothing to do with Boron's point...it's simply a cheap shot
> on your part.
>
> Your constant anti - US frothing at the mouth is getting *increasingly*
> tiresome.
>


Bush supporters *do* tend to find truth, logic, and reason to be tiresome.
They much prefer Fox news and Republican propaganda. Oops, same thing!


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