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Thread #55922 Message #872130
Posted By: artbrooks
22-Jan-03 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Human Shields
Subject: RE: BS: Human Shields
As McGrath of Harlow said, its a "weird term "Caucasians" - it's a daft term anyway." There were originally only three groups: Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid, and everyone was supposed to fit into one or the other. At some point, American Indian and Australian Aborigine were added, and somebody else can go off on a wild-assed tangent as to why. Then the names of the groups were changed several times, I suppose to avoid offending poeple who didn't like the label that they were stuck with.
The biological fact is that any group that interbreeds enough will acquire "typical" characteristics, whether you choose to discuss the Iraqis or the Irish. This does not make them a separate race. The key to distinguishing a "race" is if the members of it can interbreed, and on that criteria there is only one race on this planet.
This does not change the facts that (1) Saddam Hussain is a vicious individual, living high while his people starve; (2) the Iraqi people do not deserve Saddam Hussain, but he is their problem; (3) it is not the mission of the United States to change the political reality in nations that are of no demonstrated danger to us; (4) throwing around fictional figures like 200,000 civilian casualties in the Gulf War and 5,000 children die each month because of UN sanctions doesn't make them true; and (5) besides being objectionable and ignorent, it isn't difficult to make the case that George W. Bush is also violating his oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States."