Tuesday, November 04, 2003

Compare and contrast

Germany
General Reinhard Guenzel, the head of German military's special forces, was stripped of his post for praising a lawmaker who said Jews could be branded as a "race of perpetrators" for alleged crimes against civilians during the Russian revolution...At a hastily-arranged news conference, a clearly angry [Defence Minister Peter] Struck said the general had damaged the image of the army with his "abstruse and confused" views.


United States
While President Bush has justifiably censured the Malaysian Prime Minister for his offensive remarks, he is silent about the religious bigotry of his own deputy undersecretary for intelligence [General "Jerry" Boykin]. President Bush was similarly silent about the equally outrageous remarks made by Attorney General Ashcroft who had similarly tried to depict the superiority of the Christianity over Islam.

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