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Originally posted by bilmore
This sort of clears up something for me - why would you be pushing this? Why would you care? Why would Drum care? I get it, now. It's not the issue of, did azner lie. It's, did the Spanish really wimp out badly and vote themselves out of the war out of fear. You guys don't want that to be - it makes an antiwar choice seem dishonorably and cravenly arrived at - so you need a new focus. In spite of all of the marches and protests pre-election and during-election with signs about "get us out" and " the US war has killed us", you now want to spin it as "ha! we all see that Avnar lied!!". Too little, too late, Ty.
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Jeeminee, Bilmore!
This is not 1968, we're not leaders of SDS, and we're not taking orders from the Communist International.
I think that your search for motives and/or conspiracies are a bit too convoluted. I also think that you're wrong to automatically consider any discussion of this issue to be motivated by anything deeper than a desire to discuss/argue about an interesting question.
You know, Ty's statement of "your" possible motives (i.e. the motives of the right) to jam the Spanish decision into the appeasement pigeonhole makes at least as much sense as your opposing theory. Think about what that means -- if for nothing else than what it says about the value of such arguments over motives.
S_A_M
