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the G-man said:
I don't make a habit to respond to statements I don't consider worth a response.

In regards to your other points:

This message board is, at its heart, a dialogue, an exchange of ideas on particular topics.

As with any dialogue or exhange, a complete understanding requires that the listener or reader pay attention to context.

In our exchange, we were talking about the insurgents. In fact, a good chunk of thread is about them, and whether they and/or others like them are "terrorists", "freedom fighers" or both.

In fact, a plain reading of the thread reveals that very little, if any, has been devoted to the Iraqis (or any other nationality) as a whole. Instead it has been devoted to the insurgents.

As such, it should have been, and I would submit was, clear to any unbiased reader that the context made clear that I was referring to the insurgents, just as the rest of the thread was.

Finally, I would respectfully submit that your retreat to the classic "desparate liberal fallback position" of calling your appointment a "racist" is simply your way of admitting you can't argue the issue on anything but emotional terms.

Or, as BSAMS would say, I WIN.



Or as Magicjay would say, you made the statement. You have presented no evidence to back it up. The statement Iragis, insurgents or whatever are stupid is a bigoted statement. Do you have any evidence to support your conclusion, like the aggregate IQ level of Iraqi insurgents? No. Your only evidence is that they behave in a manner contrary to the wishes of the foreign occupation force that trespasses in their country. Then you pull out the L word and say that I have resorted to racism, despite the fact that Iraqis are not a racial group. Whether or not racism is the fall back of liberals has nothing to do with the argument. Even if it were, that doesn't make it wrong.

The statement you made was bigoted. You've done nothing to disprove that. Why don't you try using logic? Or is bluster and bullshit the fall back position of conservatives?

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.