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Old 06-21-2010, 01:14 PM   #1
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You wouldn't make that statement if it hadn't been

Bill Clinton

who stopped a genocide of ethnic cleansing including systematic mass rape and torture when he

won the war
If that were true, then explain to me why he ignored Rwanda. That was on his watch. Or was it just because it was Africa and the people who were getting hacked to death, an estimated 800,000 in about 4 months, were black?

edit: having issues with my key board. should be clearer.

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Old 06-21-2010, 01:22 PM   #2
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We should have ignored Bosnia completely.
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You wouldn't make that statement if it hadn't been

Bill Clinton

who stopped a genocide of ethnic cleansing including systematic mass rape and torture when he

won the war
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If that were the explain to me why he ignored Rwanda.
You should't jump to the next thing without either addressing/ conceding the first.

Oh and what the hell does that mean anyway.
Is this even a sentence? "If that were the explain to me why..."
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Old 06-21-2010, 01:39 PM   #3
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You should't jump to the next thing without either addressing/ conceding the first.
Why is that? I could give a shit if it was Clinton. Many of our presidents have ignored genocides around the world though, so I guess Clinton could have ignored the one in Bosnia as well.

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Oh and what the hell does that mean anyway.
Is this even a sentence? "If that were the explain to me why..."
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Old 06-21-2010, 05:33 PM   #4
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If that were true, then explain to me why he ignored Rwanda.
Perhaps he was estimating what could productively be done by force, and what could not.
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