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| subject: | Re: Democracies don`t attack democracies part deux |
From: "Robert Comer"
Dang, that hurts my brain just looking at it, they don't even have a clue.
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Bob Comer
"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:44c09c58{at}w3.nls.net...
> A) It is darkly humorous how the neo-cons put this forward with such
> gusto given how they themselves have now contributed to proving the
> pseudo fact wrong
>
> e.g.
>
> http://jihadwatch.org/archives/009462.php
>
> "Because you see, democracies don't fight democracies. That's the truth.
> You can take that to the bank. In two thousand years, no democracy has
> ever declared war on a democracy. Oh, sure, I know some people think
> democracies were born yesterday, and there aren't enough examples, and
> besides, there was the American Civil War (but the south wasn't a
> democracy) and the Franco-Prussian War (well, they weren't real
> democracies), and World War I (ditto -- they onlly become "real"
> democracies when they stop declaring war on each other), and World War
> II doesn't count because Germany wasn't a real democracy when England
> and France declared war on it (Hitler was supported only by a handful of
> madmen, and would have been voted out right away). And about that
> Falklands War between Great Britiain and Argentina -- oh, that was too
> small to count as a war. And...well, you get my point. "Democracies
> never make war on democracies."
>
> So that's the beauty of our strategy. We just give them democracy --
> three elections in one year, whew! -- and let them get used to marching
> off to vote and purple-thumbs and billboards, and just add water, or
> blood -- and haven't those Iraqis been something the way they have been
> so eager and willing to fight as one, one nation under God, with liberty
> and justice for all, unless you are a Shi'a and the "all" includes the
> Sunnis, or a Sunni and the "all" includes the Shi'a, or either a Sunni
> or a Shi'a Arab and the "all" is supposed to include Kurds. Well, with
> some liberty, and some justice, for those who resemble me, or my family,
> or my tribe.
>
> And once we have transformed Iraq and then the whole Middle East, the
> Iraqis -- the Iraqi people of Iraq -- will be our alies, our iraqi
> allies. Now and forever. We will have achieved "Total victory" in the
> war on terror. "
>
> a UK (& the US) vs Finland in 1941....
>
> Us & the yanks were mates wi'Stalin & his boys so....Finland woz our
> enemy...
>
> but now.....a major serious example to the contrary & all part of the
> "War on Terror"...how ironic...
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741318.html
>
> "Warplanes resumed strikes on targets across Lebanon on Friday as Israel
> warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee the south
"immediately,"
> preparing for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone in
> southern Lebanon."
>
> &
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741100.html
>
> "Lebanon's army, which so far has sat on the sidelines of the violence
> raging in the country, will fight an Israeli ground invasion, Defense
> Minister Elias Murr said on Al-Jazeera television Thursday.
>
> "The Lebanese army - and I stress - the Lebanese army will resist and
> defend and will prove that it is an army that deserves respect," he said.
>
> In most of the previous Israeli attacks, including in 1978 and the 1982
> invasion in which Beirut was occupied, the Lebanese army largely stayed
> out of the fighting. "
>
> So a tolerant multi-faith multi-ethnic democracy vs Israel....which they
> keep saying is a democracy if only a dictatorship of the majority style
> of democracy.
>
> I wonder...are there any other Neo-con myths left to expose? WMD in
> Iraq...nope, Welcomed as liberators...nope, Give em democracy & they'll
> vote for our people whether in iraq or Palestine...nope, they can pay
> for their own liberation...nope, democracies don't attack
> democracies....nope.....so is anything left from their fantasy?
>
>
> Adam
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