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You missed the important part which are the words ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT. Further, you posed your self the other magic words, ANOTHER NATIONS BOYCOTT. This also means sign a contract.
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So you're saying that the antiboycott laws only apply in the case of contracts, with persons outside the US? You're saying, for example, that Americans are free to boycott Israel at their own initiative or endorse the legality of boycotting Israel? In effect, you're supporting the option of boycotting Israel? Or any countries, nationalities, religions, etc? And you're a US citizen? Answer in statement form please.
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It really boils down to this. Do you support freedom and democracy for all people or not.
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No, your argument boils down to insistence on election of national representatives or
no democratic participation allowed. It's a pretext to stifling democracy in other arenas. That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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That is laughable do you think that ideas form in a vacuum.
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You're replying to, "IMO the UDHR was about as fresh a document as was possible at the time", apparently.
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It is obvious to me you have know idea where the Iran Iraq war was fought. Hell I do not think you have any idea where the first Gulf War was fought or you would not even bring them up in context with mass graves of civilians.
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You were talking about personally seeing mass graves in Southern Iraq. IIRC Iran-Iraq (originally called the Persian Gulf War) was fought along the entire border and into the Gulf, mainly on Iraqi soil. The WWI character of Iran-Iraq (the Iranians deployed human wave attacks including unarmed women and children, both sides used gas, mines, trenches) ensured mass graves. What is
now called the first Gulf War (Iraq-Kuwait war, or, Desert Storm/Desert Sabre, lest there be confusion) was waged initially from the air, from Turkey to Saudi Arabia, then on land, well north into Iraq. The US forces buried Iraqi soldiers in mass graves, and Iraqi "collateral damage" from the intense bombing could very well have been buried with the same expediency we just witnessed in Fallujah: bodies piled in trenches. I don't know just where in Iraq you've been, or when.
Anyway, your point seems to be that I'm ignorant, somehow.
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Kobuchi next you will try to convince everyone that the holocaust never happened.
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No, and I won't deny Dresden, Hiroshima, or Halabja either.
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Well I am happy for Canada, economic health is in our best intrest. However...
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Yes, I see you are happy. It's in your interest to be happy.
Nuts.
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LOL you expect any trade agreement to work out perfectly. Let me ask you a question, "do you argue with your wife?"
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My wife never flipped the Byrd Amendment in my face. Nor have marriage counselors judged her actions "illegal".
I feel better about my role in what Canada is
preparing to do , with your self professed LOL on the matter.