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=> can't see it that way.....

can't see it that way.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, February 25 2012, 0:00:52 (UTC)
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I'm afraid I see it rather differently...for one thing, and as a student of history, though he doesn't specify time or place, it was sad to hear him spread the "they massacred us in Iraq" jingle all over again...as a student of history he should have gotten over by now this recitation of inaccuracies, to put it mildly.

I'm not going to argue over the number he gives because it hardly matters...three or three hundred thousand is still a massacre. But why? Why does he think the Iraqi army "suddenly" moved against "innocent civilians"? Surely he knows Iraq welcomed and gave shelter to the fleeing Nestorians and that Iraq had 1400 years to "massacre" every last Christian in their reach. Since they had taken them in and since they had never "massacred" them before, wouldn't a student of history ask "why"? Why did the Iraqis "suddenly" and with no apparent reason, do that which they had refrained from doing for 1400 years?

Also, he came out looking exactly like what the woman portrayed him as; an apologist for Assad...a mild mannered one but nonetheless an apologist trying to explain away what the rest of the world thinks it knows...

And, to put it bluntly, his real concern is not for the legitimacy of the so-called people's rebellion against tyranny etc., but rather a fear that Muslim "fundamentalists" will take over and "you know what that means for us Christians",(wink, wink).

I understand that it's an achievement when any one of us makes it before a white camera...but it also matters what we say when we get there and I don't think Jeloo did himself any favors...it was more fear-mongering of the type Bush used and Obama uses now about "watch out, here come the Fundamentalists", when it is Christian fundamentalists who are causing the lion's share of the death and misery in the MidEast and always have.

When asked about the torture and horrors Assad is supposedly engaging in, Jeloo should have reminded the audience of what the United States, and Australia those champions of Muslim rights, have done in Iraq...and of the lies used and scare-tactics used to warn us all about nuclear war and yellow-cake and WMDs and the rest of it....Jeloo sounded like Hitchens, without the accent.



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