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Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Mon Sep 17 11:51:15 PDT 2001


Leo Casey wrote:


> Congratulations, Dennis, you have managed to drag the level of LBO
> discourse down to the lowest level. Not very well-written, with cartoon
> caricature, but it cuts right to the chase with the undisguised personal
> attack.

Coming from you, Leo, this is indeed a compliment. As for engaging in personal attacks, you, my Clinton-loving pal, cannot be touched, at least on this list.


> While you were writing your faded purple prose last night, I just happened
> to be out of the house and away from my computer -- I had left to go to a
> vigil in Brooklyn, about half a mile away from where I lived, of the
> Arab-American community to express their sorrow over the deaths. It was
the
> place to be . . . All of that was not something I thought necessary to
report for LBO-Talk.

Wait a minute. You fill post after post with your private feelings about the attacks (while attacking others using the dead as your shield), but felt the above wasn't "necessary" to tell us here? I think what you did was commendable, but it doesn't excuse your crass use of the tragedy to bash those whose politics you abhor.

And what of my other comments, Leo?


> >Of course, when honoring his hero, Leo doesn't mention Clinton's support
> >for Israeli ethnic cleansing of Shia areas of southern Lebanon in 1993,
> >brutal ground sweeps and air raids that left entire villages and towns
> >empty and
> >filled refugee camps (which later were bombed with US weapons). Nor does
> >he make a peep about the far worse ethnic cleansing by the Turks against
> >the Kurds, again supported and financed by Clinton, some 3 million
refugees
> >fleeing tens of thousands of villages that were pounded with US bombs.
> >Forget Sudan, Leo. I won't even mention it. What do you have to say about
> >these actions supported and financed by your hero? As bad or worse as
what
> >happened last Tuesday?

Any comments? And what of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs that followed the bombing you hail as humanitarian? Any thoughts?

DP



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