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From: russ@convex.COM (Russell Donnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CALL FOR HELP - IRAN EARTHQUAKE
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Date: 26 Jun 90 14:56:26 GMT
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In article <1990Jun25.163315.16622@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes:
>In article <535@ra.MsState.Edu> ehm1@CC.MsState.Edu (Eddie Mikell) writes:
>>This has to be a joke, isn't it?
>>
>>How about trading some aid for some of our hostages back?
>
>It is definately no joke.  Especially not to the 80,000 (latest report) dead 
>and the hundreds of thousands injured and homeless.  It is not the government 
>of Iran nor the hostage takers in Lebanon that we are helping, it is the human
>beings that have been devastated in a natural disaster that could just as
>well happen here in the U.S.  These people didn't take any hostages.  Most
>of them are average farmers that probably don't even know there are any 
>hostages in Lebanon.

	The farmers of Iran are as responsible for their government as
the naive in the United States are about our government.  I believe this
would be a *VERY* appropriate time for the Ayatolla to order all of the
hostages released.  This country and its people do not condone terrorism
under any circumstances.  Sending aid to Iran will not make Iranians our
friends.  Even if they pretended to be our friends in the interim, six
months later they would find a way to spit in our faces to show the world
that they aren't weak.  Like Eddie, I want the hostages back *FIRST*!

>I should also appoligize to all those people in "inappropriate" newsgroups
>whose time and money I have wasted with my posting.

	Me too, but I let one go by.  I refuse to let a second.

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