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Old 06-29-2010, 20:29   #14
wch84
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Originally Posted by Green Light View Post
Perhaps I should apologize for my disparaging comments about Mussolini, too. I don't speak well of unrepentant racists. He, like Strom Thurmond, need to be remembered for who they were. Otherwise history will continue to recycle.

I will respect the dead when the lives they led deserve it. He deserves little respect IMO. Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.
After reading the following statement on his wikipedia page, I changed my mind. May he burn in hell.

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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
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