http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/10/torch-detour-made-the-best-of-a-tense-situation/ Politics in the Bay Area and beyond Sat, 18 May 2013 02:53:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/10/torch-detour-made-the-best-of-a-tense-situation/comment-page-1/#comment-6354 Josh Richman Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:27:26 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/10/torch-detour-made-the-best-of-a-tense-situation/#comment-6354 I wrote “it’s not like we’re China or something” to mean we don’t roll tanks over people who’ve taken to the streets (or to blogs!) to speak out for justice — taken in context it clearly was a free-speech reference, not intended as a blanket condemnation.

]]> http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/10/torch-detour-made-the-best-of-a-tense-situation/comment-page-1/#comment-6355 Progressive Democrat Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:18:25 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/04/10/torch-detour-made-the-best-of-a-tense-situation/#comment-6355 Are you SURE we’re not like China? We’re in Iraq for the oil. l00,000 Iraqis are the victims of an illegal US occupation for oil. China was forced out of Iraq where they had negotiated an oil agreement with Sadaam. The US took over to control this oil. Now China is in Sudan for oil that the US is monopolizing for our country in Iraq. We’re killing Iraqis whom we call Al Queda, insurgents, criminals and other names–that is, anyone who opposes the US occupation and theft of Iraqi resources by foreign us-BASED corproations. Also, China is the only 3rd world country that pulled 300 million of its people out of poverty. Now we criticize them for industrializing and what we did plundering and destroying our environment in the l9th century. Everything we criticize China for there is a counterexample in US. But we are ALL such experts and SOOOO morally superior to those evil China commies who cannot possibly do anything right to help their people.

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