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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: US weapons in Europe
Message-ID: <6190@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 08:58:50 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.6190
Posted: Wed Nov 21 08:58:50 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Nov-84 03:07:26 EST
References: <470@utcsrgv.UUCP> <116@talcott.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <116@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) writes:

> I stand corrected: the majority of Europeans are indeed very concerned about
> SS-20's. It happens to be the case, however, that those who choose to ignore
> the existence of the SS-20's are more likely to be political loud-mouths.
> Some of there so-called pacifists actually do not know that their own
> governments actually *want* U.S. military support. Don't you remember who
> originally drafted the plan to put Pershing II's and cruise missiles in
> Europe? (Well, Thatcher, Schmidt, and Giscard all had a big part in it...)

Just because European governments want US arms doesn't mean European people
want them, as is well demonstrated in Holland among others, where the great
majority of people don't want the wretched things. And it doesn't mean
either that we won't complain about the governments wanting them!
So there. Loud mouth yourself.

Steven Pemberton, so-called pacifist.