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:: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 ::
Oh; now this is fabulous! OpinionJournal - Best of the Web TodayAccepting for the sake of argument that the enemy in Iraq indeed consists of 'mostly Iraqis' (more on this in the next item), they are 'the people' America is in Iraq to liberate only in the sense that the oppressors and the oppressed are of the same nationality. But this reinforces Rice's point, for the same was true in Birmingham in 1963. Jim Crow was a system under which Americans oppressed Americans, just as Baathism was a system under which Iraqis oppressed Iraqis.
The only obvious difference is that in the South, the oppressors and the oppressed were easily identifiable by skin color. Wickham's argument thus amounts to the assertion that because to him Iraqis all look alike, their oppression counts for nothing. What an appalling display of moral idiocy.
:: Mark 2:33 PM [+] ::
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