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From: Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: Japan makes it big in world news
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:05:18 +0900
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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, 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.