On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:34:17 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Peter Aitken wrote:
>
>>
>> > That may be, but it was not the Danish people or the Danish government
>> > that waved
>> > a proverbial red flag. It was the action of the editors of a newspaper.
>> > The
>> > government's big sin is that the prime minister refused to have a meeting
>> > with
>> > some Islamic embassadors to discuss it because he thought that it was an
>> > issue of
>> > free speech.
>> >
>>
>> What I find particularly troubling is that when the original cartoons were
>> circulated in the Muslim world, some persons unknown added additional and
>> even more offensive cartoons that they created, attributing them to the
>> Danish newspaper, to further inflame the population. While much more
>> blatant, this is akin to the continual program of disinformation from the
>> Bush administration, with the willing help of Fox News and other servile
>> "news" outlets, to whip up public support for the war and their other
>> policies.
>>
>
>It would certainly be ironic that someone in the middle east, and presumably
>Moslem, would create even more offensive cartoons than the originals. One would
>expect that to be a greater sin than drawing or publishing the originals.
>

There are only Muslims in the Middle East? Someone else wants to
blame this affair on Bush...

When I see such thinking in anti-Bushites, I despair that we'll ever
get rid of the neocons.

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