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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 08:50 AM
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Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims -- Bolton
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in
Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".

Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: "it is a matter of great concern to us ...that these civilian deaths are occurring. It's a tragedy."

"I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts," he added, while defending as "self-defense" Israel's military action, which has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths".

The eight dead Canadians were a Lebanese-Canadian couple, their four children, his mother and an uncle, said relatives in Montreal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060717/pl_afp/mideastconflictlebanon_060717204728
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 08:58 AM
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1. this vile man represents the US!
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:00 AM
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2. On the other hand...
Boltons mouth is the same as his asshole.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:06 AM
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3. Neither are American apparently
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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:07 AM
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4. Yeah, I guess the Israelis missed the giant Lebanese tank factory
next door and accidentally hit the apartment building. Purely an accident.

:sarcasm:
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:07 AM
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5. Bolton better pray, that his backside
doesn't end up at The Hague. That statement would probably make a Nuremburg War Criminal wince. It seems to me that the moral position of the US has probably sunk so low, that you probably can get to China from here.
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durrrty libby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:18 AM
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6. His comments are beyond ignorant n/t
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 09:26 AM
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7. Echoes of Nazi voices. "Some just aren't humans." I hate this
ugly, morally corrupt, arrogant neco-Con!
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