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Thread #102635   Message #2101564
Posted By: John MacKenzie
13-Jul-07 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
So he may be a thief but he's our thief is the basis of US foreign policy, is that it?
I also think that to assume that Islamists would gain the upper hand in Pakistan when Musharraf is deposed/assassinated is a tribute to the success of the US governments propaganda that paints all Islamists as extremists.
They certainly learned their lesson well from Senator McCarthy.

And it's people who kill other people for exercising their civil rights I despise, not the label they are given by others, or the one they stick on themselves.


Giok