Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Politicians block comic over 'fake' Nanjing Massacre tale Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:30:48 -0400 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2tfag9F1uuvaqU9@uni-berlin.de> References: <41713486.F4781448@yahoo.co.jp> <417158E9.A73CD5E5@yahoo.co.jp> <2td40oF1t7i1tU7@uni-berlin.de> <41715BF3.AB490EAD@yahoo.co.jp> <2td4vkF1t7i1tU8@uni-berlin.de> <41716A8F.612526C2@yahoo.co.jp> <4172093A.C5DC21AD@yahoo.co.jp> <41721612.7CABBF56@yahoo.co.jp> <8mc4n0tbeonl4kvmmvh3dvkj23mkgakkgq@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 5JawNQSLCwW03qRx+MMXuw0ppaasQLMNsmbA0M+0gNZqc3pwlf User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <8mc4n0tbeonl4kvmmvh3dvkj23mkgakkgq@4ax.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:19511 Michael Cash wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:49:54 +0900, Eric Takabayashi > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >>Michael Cash wrote: >> >> >>>>Why? Would you prefer I be one of the 70% of the American public who believes >>>>Iraq had anything to do with 9/11? >>> >>>I'd prefer that you join me in the 1% of the American public who >>>recognizes that opinion polls have no strong relation to reality. >> >>Do you mean that contrary to survey findings, many Americans do NOT believe in any >>links, or simply that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and respondents >>mistakenly believe in them? > > > I should have written that more clearly. I intended it in a general > way, not specifically to the Iraq-911 connection (or lack thereof). The 9/11 Commission Report was quite clear on the Iraq-al Qaeda connection. Of course, that is not the same thing as an Iraq-911 connection. The administration has never claimed an Iraq-911 connection. - Kevin