[Xaccers]

I couldn't believe (ok I could) how badly the sun had misquoted her.
Changing her statement from one fo condemning suicide bombers but understanding what drives them to it, to being pro-suicide bombers.

Here's something like what she said, but a different context.

"I condemn burglaries by heroine users. I think though, that if I was a heroine user, and I say this advisedly, that I too would break into someone's house to steal their TV, just to pay for my next fix."

Don't anyone dare say I can't compare the two, because I'm not comparing the two, it is the message that is important, not the context.


Most of us can understand the above, we know that drug users break into houses/mug people just to be able to afford their next fix. We understand why they are stealing, but in saying we understand, we are in no way what so ever saying we are pro-stealing, or justifyting drug users stealing for their habbits.

That message is no different to what Tonge was saying. She could understand why suicide bombers do what they do, and that if she was in the same horrible situation as the palestinians, she might even do it as well (because she understood what drove them to it), but that is in no way what so ever saying that the suicide bombers are right, or just, or that she is pro-terrorists.

Now do you understand?