Please don't bomb Iraq

James Baird jlbaird3 at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 17 08:59:10 PST 1998



>
>That's the rule in government matters, not an exception specific to
Clinton
>and Saddam. Otherwise, why pass laws prohibiting the assassination of
>foreign leaders, while qualifying as duty the assassination of whole
armies
>and scores of civilians? Looks like the number of victims ennobles the
act
>of killing, as sarcastically remarked by Chaplin in "Monsieur Verdoux".
>
>Enzo
>

Wasn't there a quote attributed to Stalin along the lines of "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."

Jim Baird

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