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KansDem

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1. Why not?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 07:21 AM

Sep 2013

They're the ones who attacked on 9/11. Besides, I'm tiring of being their "white slaves"--

Centrist liberals like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. disseminated the unpleasant but important truth that the Gulf Arabs whose nations and oil we were supposedly defending held the United States in complete contempt. Scarcely a week before the bombing began, Schlesinger quoted in the Wall Street Journal dispatch from Saudi Arabia: "You think I want to send my teen-aged son to die for Kuwait? We have our white slaves from America to do that." And, quoting a Saudi teacher: "The American soldiers are a new kind of foreign worker here. We have Pakistanis driving taxis and now we have Americans defending us."

http://www.antiwar.com/mcconnell/mc012202.html

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