Human Shields - Where are they when you need them?

Show me anywhere on the site of http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/ that says the Burmese people want people to go to Burma. Please. Otherwise you're just talking out of your posterior.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Oct 9 2007, 03:00 PM) [snapback]523259[/snapback]</div>

I am saying they don't want the help you propose -- westerners flooding burma, and you have provided no evidence to the contrary. It's not like there's an information blackout that's fully functional. At http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/ you can listen to audio of monks being burned alive.

Again, the only person calling for "US human shields" to go to Burma is Planet Berman. Talking out of its posterior. That you use a tragedy like this to spew your bile is somewhat sickening.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Oct 9 2007, 12:30 PM) [snapback]523236[/snapback]</div>

He is the sole voice anywhere for anything he says. If he was any good at it he could write fantasy novels. But his inventions are so implausible that even the fans of Harry Potter or Star Trek would not swallow them. The fact that the Buddhist monks leading the protests in Burma have clearly and specifically asked westerners to stay away means nothing to dbermanmd because facts and reality mean nothing to him. He lives only to construct worthless arguments for his narrow world view in which everyone is either a good guy (the governments of the U.S. and Israel and the supporters of those governments) or else is a terrorist. And his arguments are so pathetic that even the people who agree with his world view consider his arguments to be embarrassing and pathetic. If you say that it gets cold in Fargo in January he will accuse you of claiming January is hot in Fargo. If you say that Olympia is the capital of Washington State he will accuse you of asserting that Spokane is the capital. And if you were to win the Nobel Prize for eliminating drug use in your home town, he would say that you are a known drug dealer. The only good thing you can say about him is that he is consistent and persistent in advocating his fantasies regardless of all opposition and in the face of all evidence. ... But I guess that's not really such a good thing after all.

Please don't feed the trolls.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Oct 9 2007, 02:41 PM) [snapback]523244[/snapback]</div>

Saddam Hussein planned to hold westerners against their will at strategic locations during the 1991 Desert Storm invasion.
Heres an interesting story about Joe C Wilson ,the one you right wingers vilify ,for proving W Bush to be a liar.

"From 1988 to 1991, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission (to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Catherine Glaspie) at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. In the wake of Iraq's 1990 Invasion of Kuwait, he became the last American diplomat to meet with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, telling him in very clear terms to "get out of Kuwait".[12] When Hussein sent a note to Wilson (along with other embassy heads in Baghdad) threatening to execute anyone sheltering foreigners in Iraq, Wilson publicly repudiated the dictator by appearing at a press conference wearing a homemade noose around his neck, and declaring, "If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own f**king rope."
Despite Hussein's threats, Wilson sheltered more than one hundred Americans at the embassy, and successfully evacuated several thousand people (Americans and other nationals) from the country. He was praised by President George H. W. Bush for his actions: "...when I arrived back in Washington on January 13, 1991, the very next day I was in the Oval Office ... The President introduced me to his War Cabinet as a true American hero.""

 

berman,
are you that character from south park, whats his name??

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Oct 9 2007, 03:57 PM) [snapback]523275[/snapback]</div>

Straw man
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This article is about the logical fallacy.
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent.