[PNEWS] WAR: But, they're "evil" and we're "good"
Angelita Manzano
angiemanzano at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 15 08:18:16 PDT 2001
How about saying, the Taliban is evil and so is the US
govt? It is true that the Taliban hates democracy. So
does the US govt. That doesn't make the first claim
any less true does it?
--- "PNEWS.ORG" <yod at pnews.org> wrote:
>
> Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction
> (mass casualty
> weapons). They can be virues, fungi, toxins or
> bacteria.
>
> Biological weapons may contain dozens of differing
> agents and each agent
> will have a different affect. They can be
> contagious, or they don't have
> to be. They survive in differing environments. They
> all react differently.
> It is a big bag. A big advantage is their
> inexpensiveness and ease with
> which they can be made.
>
> Biological weapons can contaminate food or water or
> they can be released
> as infected vectors, i.e. mosquitoes or other
> insects - or by aerosol.
>
> The least effective would be water contamination
> because of the
> installation of water purification systems in use on
> water systems.
> However food is an easy source for spreading
> contaminants. Releasing
> biological contaminants in microscopic particles in
> an aerosol can also be
> done easily by spraying, explosion; then to be
> carried aloft with the wind
> or by way of a ventilation system.
>
> Biological weapons can be used to spread plague or
> even a comon disease
> and may not be apparent immediately and by then the
> perpetrator can
> be gone.
>
> The United States deplores biological weapons used
> by others but is
> currently involved itself in biological weapons
> development and research.
> It says the research is necessary in order to
> develop anecdotes, but if it
> never developed new types and strains it would never
> need the cure. But
> just try to get the United States to give up cluster
> bombs, napham, land
> mines, biological or chemical warfare or nuclear,
> all of which is anathma
> and condemned by most of the international
> community, yet exists in the
> United States arsenal.
>
> We often use more heinous methods for killing people
> and the shock quickly
> also goes away. The 1945 fire bombing of Dresden
> which resulted in 100,000
> dead was justified and certainly one atrocity
> deserves another, like
> mass killing with nuclear bombs, even if we're the
> only country in the
> world to have ever used them.
>
> There will always be those who are apologists for
> the U.S. and acts so
> indignant when others imploy these methods or
> someone else gets killed. We
> apologize when a bomb goes off course and kills
> civilians. We never meant
> to kill them, but we won't stop the war, when it
> surely means more will be
> killed because it is so easy to say, "I'm sorry."
> ------ OR, isn't they're
> fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
> like the Chinese
> Embassy in Kosovo or bombing a civlian train on a
> bridge over the Juzna
> Morava River, or bombing Albanian refugees on a road
> in souther Kosovo.
>
> At work this week I heard co-workers say, "The
> Taliban is at fault for not
> turning bin Laden over to us." How dare this
> sovereign country refuse to
> obey the United States. Even if they could and they
> offered with proof,
> which the president refused to provide because he
> says he does not have to
> negotiate. That is because this president has no
> conscience. Over 500
> innocent civilians have been killed in the first
> week and that isn't the
> worst of it. The worst of it will come with winter,
> when the starving
> starts.
>
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