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I completely agree.  I'm not going to zero- or one-rate it.  Plenty of people seem to have done so, already.  But, Page, that was a ridiculous outburst.  You apparently forget that you're not the only American here.  I didn't see anything resembling anti-Americanism in Migeru's comment.  I understand being sensitive to anti-Americanism.  Everyone in America's Reality-based Community suffers because of the idiotic acts of the Bushies.  But that really has nothing to do with what he said.

No one has referred to Americans as evil.   Had anyone done so, I'd be the first to demand an apology.  Migeru has called out the Bushies a great deal -- that's it -- and there is nothing wrong with that.  He has been completely respectful of my views.  If anything, you should take advantage of being able to speak with our friends in Europe and demonstrate that we're not a bunch of religious whackjobs, because I think it helps to calm everyone across the Atlantic down and let them know that we're fighting the sociopaths who have taken over the White House -- and that we're finally winning, if the polls are to be believed (and, statistically, I think they are).

I think you're looking for anti-Americanism to such a degree that you're bordering on paranoia.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 06:03:59 PM EST
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Drew, it's a bit more complicated: Page is an expat, she lives in the Netherlands, her fears are possibly also of not being accepted as an European, to always stay an American in (some) local's eyes.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 06:34:39 PM EST
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That's fair.  I've never experienced that sort of isolation, so I can't criticize that feeling.  But I maintain that it does not excuse such an attack.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 06:51:16 PM EST
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