Ernest Schaal wrote:

> in article 3F07E7AB.8251C736@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
> etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 7/6/03 6:11 PM:
>
> > Ernest Schaal wrote:
> >
> >> I really think we are talking about apples and oranges here. On the one hand
> >> there is be decision to invade Iraq, which had legitimate pros and cons and
> >> on the other hand there is the Japanese politicians supporting gang rape and
> >> sexism. To excuse the Japanese because of the invasion of Iraq is the
> >> heights of ridiculousness.
> >
> > What leads you to believe I am excusing the Japanese just because I agree that
> > what politicians do or say may actually represent public sentiment?
>
> If you are NOT excusing the Japanese, your meaning is clear as mud (dark
> mud). When you go off on an anti-Bush tangent to a discussion of the
> Japanese politicians supporting gang rape, I naturally assumed that you were
> trying to excuse the Japanese politicians,

I'm not. Just pointing out that Bush's statements or actions may also sometimes
accurately reflect public opinion in his own country.

> because the only other possible
> assumption is that you were deliberately trying to change the subject of the
> thread out of a perverse disrespect of net etiquette.

Look back in the thread and see who it was brought up Bush and America, and who was
changing the subject from your depiction of Japanese as not yet mature. It was a
post in response to you, which you have not yet responded to, I must point out.