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Old July 20th 03, 08:53 AM
Jose M. Arnesto
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:32:22 GMT,
(Michael Kent) wrote:

In sci.space.policy Jose M. Arnesto wrote:

On 28 Jun 2003 19:25:15 GMT,
h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:


Well, actually the analogy is broken for a different reason. It isn't
true that "Europe sat quietly." Much of Europe (Britain, Spain,
Italy, much of eastern Europe) favored the war. France (always loyal
friend, apparently, of dictators everywhere) actively opposed the war,
and attempted to prevent it from occuring.


Some governments favored the war... with the overwhelming
opposition of its populations. In Spain, more than 90% of the
population was against the war, and there were huge demonstrations to
show it (the biggest ones in history).


And by most accounts the population of Iraq favored the war by similar
margins. Do you Europeans ever stop to wonder why you so overwhelmingly
were opposed to Operation Iraqi Freedom while so many Iraqis were for
it? Doesn't that strike you as odd and cause you to reconsider your
position?


Of course not, because even if the end *might* be good (that
remains to be seen), the means were not.

Nevertheless, I would love to see some references before
accepting your statement that the majority of the population of Iraq
favors the invasion.

And, as this is clearly off-topic here (although one could
doubt it, given the number of moronic French-bashing threads lately),
if you want to go on with this, please take it to some other place
like talk.politics.european-union or similar.

Kind regards.
--
Jose M. Arnesto

 




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