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Sun Apr 8, 2012, 04:07 PM

tabasco (18,283 posts)

6. That's not true.

Why did you post a falsehood?

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82 replies	Author	Time	Post
Israel bars German author over poem critical of its nuclear arsenal [View all]	bananas	Apr 2012	OP
As Valerie Plame said, getting to global zero won't be easy. nt	bananas	Apr 2012	#1
German author?	JerseyMac	Apr 2012	#2
Life long Nazi. n/t	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#3
That's not true.	tabasco	Apr 2012	#6
yes Günter Glass did serve in an SS Panzer unit in 1944 when he was 17 didn't he?	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#8
Shame on you.	JackRiddler	Apr 2012	#10
So are all IDF members lifelong Irgun terrorists by your asinine and simple logic?	Robeysays	Apr 2012	#12
If someone was in Irgun and seems to advocate for Irgun positions decades later.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#25
Grass isn't advocating for a Nazi position.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#34
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#72
That's twice you've made that accusation about me	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#78
Bullshit	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#23
Thank you for the truth, Ken	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#24
Doesnt matter. In the end its their country and they can say who can enter it and who cant just like	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#52
Ok.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#57
He was a Nazi. You can argue he isn't one anymore.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#58
The poem wasn't antisemitic	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#65
I dont know if he is or if he isnt and frankly I dont care nor	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#60
Did you realize your entire post was a run-on sentence?	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#64
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#73
You just accused me of promoting something unspeakable, because I disagreed with you about a poem.	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#77
Bullshit. Grass is a lifelong ANTI-Nazi	Ken Burch	Apr 2012	#79
Not true	LeftishBrit	Apr 2012	#80
Gunter the Nazi was Waffen SS.	Ruby the Liberal	Apr 2012	#7
wasn't it the Waffen SS Panzer unit and for how many years was that? n/t	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#9
Is this why so many good authors were repeatedly blocked from publication in the US?	Trillo	Apr 2012	#4
I guess Mordechai Vanunu was an anti-semite, too!	provis99	Apr 2012	#5
Former Waffen SS member Guther Grass barred	Riftaxe	Apr 2012	#11
Then we should Bar all Israelis who severed in the IDF for there life long Irgun Affiliation.	Robeysays	Apr 2012	#13
Well first of Irgun isn't nearly the equivalent to the Waffen SS.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#26
they didn't bar him for being a Nazi.	provis99	Apr 2012	#14
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#74
It's not just Israel's nuclear arsenal that needs to be destroyed,	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Apr 2012	#15
Might as well wish for a unicorn as thats as likely to happen imo.	cstanleytech	Apr 2012	#20
Author of "The Tin Drum".	no_hypocrisy	Apr 2012	#16
Wow. Godwin's Law much??	Malikshah	Apr 2012	#17
thanks you got it exactly right	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#31
Read the poem.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Apr 2012	#18
hey israel way to take the high ground while murdering people worldwide	starfox172	Apr 2012	#19
It's frustrating to me that there seems to be no distinction in the minds of some	XemaSab	Apr 2012	#21
You're right - judging Jews by Israel is like judging Americans by George W.	saras	Apr 2012	#22
True	primavera	Apr 2012	#36
This guy was Waffen SS. Ideological apples rarely fall far from their ideological roots.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#27
so criticizing Israels nukes is firing a broadside at the Jewish people?	azurnoir	Apr 2012	#30
Calling the Jewish state the world's greatest threat to peace is. n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#37
The word you are ignoring is "drafted".	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#35
Part of a wartime building company. Voluntered to join the Kreigsmarine.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#38
Which had little to do with National Socialist sympathies, if any.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#43
Back track much?	Kurska	Apr 2012	#44
I never said he didn't volunteer for the military.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#49
Hitler youth, volunteered for service, holds anti-semitic beliefs decades later.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#54
I ask again for cites for your claims, please.	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#61
He was a Hitler youth member	Kurska	Apr 2012	#62
You know nothing about Günter Grass	reorg	Apr 2012	#63
Because you say so? n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#68
So you are claiming that anti-semitism is in the ire of the beholder?	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#66
No I'm saying it is harder to prove as objective fact than membership in an organization.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#67
Cites to an internet post, and an Isreali newspaper...	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#70
Some more actual history for you....	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#50
"wartime building company"? Cite, please. n/t	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#51
Luftwaffenhelfer	Kurska	Apr 2012	#55
Too bad for Israel	Arctic Dave	Apr 2012	#28
LOL. Showing my ignorance, I thought	BlueMTexpat	Apr 2012	#29
Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back	JohnyCanuck	Apr 2012	#32
If you're threatened by a poem, you are clearly and unequivocally WRONG. End of story.	saras	Apr 2012	#33
Many people at many times have felt threatened by Nazi's. n/t	Kurska	Apr 2012	#39
Gunter Grass is not really any more of a Nazi than the pope is	RZM	Apr 2012	#40
but don't you see	Bodhi BloodWave	Apr 2012	#41
It is pretty odd	RZM	Apr 2012	#42
Except he didn't just critize Israel's nuclear weapons.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#45
Does that mean that DUers who say the same thing are disguised as liberals too?	RZM	Apr 2012	#46
If anyone is saying Israel wants to kill every Iranian and is the primary threat to world peace	Kurska	Apr 2012	#47
I've never heard anyone here argue the first one	RZM	Apr 2012	#48
Grass did not make any of these assertions	reorg	Apr 2012	#53
I actually read the poem.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#56
Your posts don't reflect that	reorg	Apr 2012	#59
Except he isn't talking about a war spiraling out of control.	Kurska	Apr 2012	#69
He clearly references	reorg	Apr 2012	#81
It's a lie to justify genocide.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#75
He didn't say that at all. You didn't even read it.	arikara	Apr 2012	#76
Citation needed	JVS	Apr 2012	#82
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Old Union Guy	Apr 2012	#71

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