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To: Imal; liberallarry
armored vehicles spraying cold water on a hot crowd is hardly a mortal threat.

There is more to it than that. These are armored vehicles with gun ports. Take a look at this baby. And we're talking about Mugabe--a stone cold killer. The "we're only selling water cannons" is a dodge to make the sale look halfway moral. Shipping heavier equipment or tanks would only infuriate the EU, which doesn't like this deal, more.

Check out #31. Africa is fascinating to research. Lots of arms flowing in from the Ukraine which are handled by Israeli nationals. Necessary to use Babelfish to translate French in many cases.

35 posted on 06/24/2002 6:44:45 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: LarryLied
As I remember the Israelis were, and are, bitterly criticized by the Left for doing business with the South African apartheid regime.

So they're amoral businessmen who do business with anybody who pays them. Gee, I thought what that's what businessmen do. If they didn't there wouldn't be any business because there's always some group who doesn't like you doing business with someone else; boycott the people who cut trees, who don't employ enough gays, who are pro-abortion, anti-abortion, for or against gun-control, push junk food, etc., etc. etc.

On a more serious level remember the merchants of death during the First World War - or Ford and IBM who continued to do business with the Germans during WWII?

Why single out the Jews and the Israelis - as you repeatedly and never-failingly do?

39 posted on 06/24/2002 7:05:58 PM PDT by liberallarry
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To: LarryLied
By the way did you ever notice how often our enemies have American arms?
41 posted on 06/24/2002 7:13:07 PM PDT by liberallarry
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