Gross impoliteness

[Bradley A. Esparza]

I liked it.

On 6/14/07, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
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> Sagehen posted the following colophon:
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>     DIE FOR OIL?   * * *   LET GEORGE DO IT!
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> This is grossly impolite.
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> The claim that the US was going to war for lower oil prices, or for oil in
> general, is a slander that was made about the FIRST President Bush and the
> Gulf War.  Yes, I say slander.
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> I distinctly remember that there was a fair amount of opposition to going
> to war in the Persian Gulf among the Democrats in Congress.  (I honestly do
> not recall about Congressional Republicans; the Democrats were much more
> memorable).  But did anyone in Congress get up and say, as someone said
> about Korea, "Wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time"?  (Sorry, I
> don't have the YBQ handy to check that quote).  No.  The only things that
> were made against the Gulf War was the slander that G. H. W. Bush was going
> to war for oil (specifically for cheap oil) and the disingenuous argument
> that if Bush extended the deadline, Saddam would negotiate seriously or
> something.
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> So now it is a decade and a half later and what do I see when I read
> through my ADS-L digest?  A slander that doesn't gain anything by having
> been recycled.
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> I say this is both grossly impolite to the list and totally out of place
> in a list whose purpose is to provide a forum for gathering information on
> philological questions.  I ask Sagehen to stop posting political messages on
> this list and to apologize to the list.
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>     - James A. Landau
>       Test Engineer
>       Northrop-Grumman, Information Technology Division
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