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Thread #117907   Message #2543534
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
19-Jan-09 - 07:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Taleban Blow Up Schools
Subject: RE: BS: Taleban Blow Up Schools
What I meant kat was that, if we were backing the Taliban and supplying them with arms, in the way we are with Israel, you can be sure there'd be one hell of a lot of outrage and indignation about it.

Though I don't know - after all when our governments were backing Saddam Hussein in his war of aggression against Iran and his treatment of the Kurds, protest against that was pretty marginalised. Mostly it was just the same kind of people who make a fuss about Iraq or Gaza...