Posted on 11/26/2006 9:19:04 AM PST by M. Espinola
Mr. Hain should better look after Northern Ireland which is not a paragon of peaceful lifestyle on its own. Go and see Belfast and you will know what I mean.
There are few places in the world where you would see roadside posters like "Beware of snipers". Northern Ireland is one of them.
Needless to say, that killing and maiming renegades was hugely popular in Northern Ireland (kneecap shooting, rings the bell?). So Mr. Hain better should mind his own business.
Do you have anything better?
Joseph Flavius a jewish historian living in 1st century AD said in his "Wars of the Jews" (right in the beginning):
3. It is true, these writers have the confidence to call their accounts histories; wherein yet they seem to me to fail of their own purpose, as well as to relate nothing that is sound. For they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the Romans, while they still diminish and lessen the actions of the Jews, as not discerning how it cannot be that those must appear to be great who have only conquered those that were little. Nor are they ashamed to overlook the length of the war, the multitude of the Roman forces who so greatly suffered in it, or the might of the commanders, whose great labors about Jerusalem will be deemed inglorious, if what they achieved be reckoned but a small matter.
Rings the bell?
Grant it the north of Ireland remains bogged down in the Troubles although they are not as horrible as in past years. Mr. Hain and for that matter any elected official or private citizen has the duty to speak out concerning evil in the world. To deny Mr. Hain that right would be Putin's way of silencing his critics permanently, which is typical KGB tactics regarding the London assassination.
No investigations are required relating to Putin arming the ever expanding Axis of Evil since it is fact. On the photo.
I agree there are most likely more photos with Bush making funny & strange faces.
From your point of view I also fully understand as a citizen of Russia, it's normal for a citizen to defend his nation's top politician, especially when the whole world has grave suspicions concerning a multiplicity of exceedingly alarming issues brought about by Putin's actions. The investigations have only begun. KGB agents should be used to investigations.
What was your point in quoting from Josephus from his work "Wars of the Jews"?
To stir up the argument I would ask you - what Rumsfeld was doing in Iraq in 1980s? Surely he was arranging sales of napkins. And where did Saddam get the mustard gas? Did USSR sell him that?
As to your statements like "it is obvious, so it is the fact"... I will not comment on that since it is obvious as well.
Have a good day.
As to the right to speak of whatever concerns whomever - you are dead right. And I have the right to say too (having been in Northern Ireland many times), that with its present situation, I'd rather not take it as a paragon of democracy.
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