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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <1679@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 13:21:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 13:21:44 1985
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> > T.C., T.C., the Afghans are *squatters*! When the Soviets began
> > using Afghanistan as a target range there WERE NO AFGHANS IN AFGHANISTAN!
> > These Afghans have no title to their land, therefore they have
> > no legal *right to be there*!
> > At least get the story straight before condemning the Soviets!
> >				-- Tim Sevener (orb@whuts)
> 
> What *are* you talking about?  There have been people living in Afghanistan
> for a very long time.  Of course, the Soviets have managed to kill
> and uproot more than 25% of them, but that's irrelevant.
> 
> The Navy finds an uninhabited island, decides to use it for a target
> range, and *then* other people decide to live there -- and when the Navy
> wants them out, Tim compares this to the Soviet extermination policy in
> Afghanistan.  I really wish I understood how the man's mind works.
> 
> Scott Renner
> {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner

Not very good at spotting sarcasm, are you Scott?  Well, I would certainly
be the last one to accuse knee-jerk rightists of excessive intelligence.

Did the article which
I posted which made it clear that TCWheeler's assertion that there were
no people on Vieques in 1912 was incorrect (i.e. TC was dead wrong)
not reach you, or did you choose to ignore it?

In fact, my friend Jorge's grandmother is from Vieques, and her family
has been there for a couple of centuries.  Now, until recently the Navy used
a DIFFERENT, smaller island for bombing purposes, and that may have been
the island TC was thinking of.

Cheers, jeff m