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Originally Posted by towny
This has got nothing to do with courage. I'm not going to get drawn into finger-pointing. You can be sure that if I ever intended to level an accusation at anyone, I would name them, as I often have.
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I'm pleased to hear it.
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If you had read my entire post, instead of just the part you quoted,
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It may surprise you to realise that, actually I *did* read the entire post, unfortunately I disagree that...
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you would have spotted that I was summing up the argument from both sides.
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... because comments like ...
"Some of the unsavoury things the USA has done, which have been posted in this thread, do indeed lend weight to the argument that it is not mere fashion to be anti-American just now."
... with caveats such as "some of" and "do lend weight" or "that it is not mere fashion", hardly balance out such a blanket accusation that
" a great many people (some of them in this thread) seem completely unable to acknowledge the fact that an evil situation existed in Iraq and has now been dealt with. This would tend to lend weight to the idea that such people are determinedly anti-American for some other reason, determined as they are to spend all their energies criticising the US while making little effort at all to condemn a murderous dictator or Al Quaeda terrorists."
We go from "some of" to "a great many (some... in this thread)" and "completely unable" and "lend weight" that "such people are determinedly anti-American for some other reason" and "determined to spend all their energies".
Now whilst you may have *tried* to be balanced, unfortunately you did not succeed in your attempt, thus I called you to account for it.
Not because I "want an argument", but because you have, IMO, misrepresented the views of people like me. I will condemn Saddam or Al Qaeda as much as anyone, but that's not what we're discussing here and the fact that they are murderous dictators or terrorists does *not* excuse the US's illegal actions.