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| Academics Urge Ba’athists to End Cycle of Violence |
| 2003-07-29 |
| Hussein supporters asked to understand "root causes" of American attacks. In the wake of the attack earlier this week that left Uday and Qusay Hussein dead, many in America’s academic community came forward to encourage the remaining supporters of Saddam Hussein to "look past their anger" and try to discover the "root causes" of the American attack. Said Middle East correspondent and professional idiotarian Robert Fisk, "While it might be tempting for Saddam’s supporters to lash out at the west, they would be better served by trying to understand why they are so hated throughout the world, including in their own country." Fisk went on to suggest that invading Kuwait and supporting terrorists around the world had done much to draw the ire of the west, and that the best course of action would be to try to understand American culture. A leading Berkley professor suggested that Baath party members should "spend time learning about Americans, Western Culture, and maybe every try a cheeseburger or maybe listening to some pop music." Said Fisk, "The temptation will be for the Baathists to strike back, but violence only begets more violence. You can’t judge an American until you’ve walked a mile in his Nikes." |
| Posted by:mojo |
| #6 Somewhere in Bizarro World... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-7-29 4:00:43 PM |
| #5 With Bezerkleyites spouting drivel like this, it's no wonder OBL thought he could take us easily. Just another typical Bezerkley Oxygen Thief wasting our natural oxygen resource. |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-7-29 3:54:35 PM |
| #4 "Scrappleface" has competition! :-) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-7-29 1:42:44 PM |
| #3 Actually Robert Fisk was at the Gen Sanchez news conference where the "yes they are dead" announcement was made. Fisk asked why we didn't surround the place for 6 days until their ammo was out and capture them. Gen Sanchez didn't do so well on the answer. He could have said, "Well we didn't know who it was but we did know that they were trying to kill us." or something like that. Instead he said, "that's speculation". |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-7-29 12:34:20 PM |
| #2 A professor at Berkley(!!!!!!!!) says that we're not the bad guys? I wish. This is satire, dude. Unlike us, the enemy isn't into navel gazing. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-7-29 11:41:34 AM |
| #1 A professor at Berkley(!!!!!!!!) says that we're not the bad guys? |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-7-29 11:23:47 AM |