I rarely copy and paste... but this is great

[spence]

Originally Posted by scottw

he parroted gross, inflammatory distortions years after they were shown to be inaccurate...

By Reason Magazine? Perhaps he didn't have a subscription, or his could have gotten wet in the mail...that does sometimes happen.

A real number is certainly debate able and probably impossible to accurately count, but even in the same article you quoted from the author admits at least 100,000 dead from sanctions since 1990. There have been several studies and they all seem to indicate that UN sanctions were very hard on the Iraqi people.

But if this is all you really have then I'm quite dissapointed. To ignore the whole of the imam and his wife's works at the expense of a single statistic demonstrates a total lack of willingness to even accept that he may be a tolerant and moderate Muslim, simply because he doesn't fit what you think a moderate should be.

Really sad.

I haven't referred to anyone as a terrorist in this issue...the type of inflammatory rhetoric based on flasehoods from a supposed "moderate" muslim leader can hardly result in bridge building in either direction...

You've asserted "guilt by association" which is even worse.

Again, I'm not sure you have a clue what a moderate Muslim looks like at the International level, or would even accept one if you did.

what he said was quite clear and you seem to be going through great contortions to explain it away..

No it's called being reasonable, I'm practicing to get a monthly slot at Reason.com.

-spence