Text 21140, 106 rader
Skriven 2006-01-05 23:33:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av PETER KNAPPER
Ärende: Lack of Gratitude
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-=> Quoting Peter Knapper to Frank Scheidt <=-

 PK> however a question such as "How do you justify the actions that were
 PK> taken?" would be responded to with something like "Our actions were
 PK> just..." and little more. Thats not exactly an 
 PK> answer that leads to any credibility. 
 
 FS> How about:  We defended ourselves against a dangerous enemy.  
 FS> Does that satisfy you?

 PK> Yes thanks, thats exactly the sort of statement that would be much
 PK> better, as it provides some rationale about the reply to the question.
 PK> In the above case, your justification was based on there being a
 PK> dangerous enemy so you defended yourself. 
 
Glad you like it better ... [sigh] ...
 
 PK> You really missed that one didn't you......;-) My last line was a
 PK> suggestion that your brainwashing took place before I was born...
 PK>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 FS> Huh?  What "brainwashing"?   Were you subject to brainwashing?  

 PK> Thats a very strange reply when we are clearly discussing YOU, not
 PK> ME... 
 
Of *course* I realize you you were making the absurd suggestion 
that *I* was brainwashed.  Then I asked if *you* were, which 
would be far more likely considering your statements here.
 FS> I know *I* wasn't since my replies have all been fact-based.

 PK> So just how does one KNOW if one has been brainwashed or not?
 
I *know* *I* haven't for as soon as it started I'd have resisted 
it.
 
 PK> Your "glib" replies make one wonder why you are trying to avoid a
 PK> direct response. It also comes back to what I said before, that your
 PK> apparent one-eyed approach leaves questions in the minds of others, as
 PK> if you are trying to hide something. This approach 
 PK> simply makes people want to ask more...  
 
I've been very open in my responses *despite* your insulting 
statements about my vision.  You apparently think partial 
blindness is something to be ridiculed.

 FS> I *never* give "glib" replies.  

 PK> Consider "glib" to be the same as the first reply above, a "glib"
 PK> reply is an unqualified reply that may not be a direct reply to a
 PK> question. 

Sometimes your questions are so absurd they *demand* no direct 
answer.
 
 FS> I don't think you understand the enormity of the value of having 
 FS> Iraq be a democracy instead of a dictatorship.  

 PK> Frank, you should NEVER admit to these things, probably without
 PK> realising it you have just stated that the SOLE reason for invading
 PK> Iraq was to provide a commercial advantge to the USA. One of the
 PK> founding principles of Democracy is the belief that there should be
 PK> open business opportunities to the commercial environment, and
 PK> according to what you have just said above, that is the sole reason for
 PK> the USA to "rescue" Iraq. 

I've made no such admission.  *Again* you are trying to put words 
into my mouth then criticizing those very words.  That won't work 
with me as *I* am an honest man.  BTW, you also have a very 
strange idea as to the nature of a democracy.

 FS> The entire Mid-East will be shaken up.

 PK> I doubt that. Most of the remaining Arab countries have fairly strong
 PK> controls in place that allow then to control any "Capital based" market
 PK> that tries to take hold. Soe of them may be a Democracy, but it is
 PK> realy only a token one at this stage.
 
We'll see, won't we?
 
 FS> Are you claiming Bush didn't have good reason to believe Saddam 
 FS> Hussein was a danger to us?

 PK> Unfortunately, he did not. GWB used his "response" to a false threat
 PK> to "hide" (ineffectively as it turns out) his real intentions. What is
 PK> hurting him so much is that like a stack of cards, it only took one to
 PK> be removed before the house came tumbling down.

Only in your mind -- plus, of course, in other rabid anti-Bush 
haters ... 
 
 FS> George W. Bush is a compassionate man, which is probably why the 
 FS> culprits haven't been reprimanded publicly.

 PK> GWB is not out in the field with his finger on the trigger, so
 PK> compassion doesn't enter into it. He already knows he is skating on
 PK> very thin ice, so now has to keep HIS profile low on this one. It will
 PK> be interesting to see how he backs the USA out of this one.

George W. Bush is *obviously* doing a fine job, despite the petty 
harping ...

... "Lovely Spam,  Wonderful Spam!"

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