civilian casualties

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Mon Oct 15 21:38:38 PDT 2001


From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>


>
> Uh, yeah, I guess I am a softy who believes in international law,
which
> prohibits the killing of civilians. I don'tthink we should be "at
war" at
> all. It's an odd sort of war, basically the deployment of
overwhelming force
> against people who can't fight back except by terrorist
attacks--not, at
> least, untill we get our choppers within range of the leftover
Stringer
> missiles we gave them a decade ago. And, yeah, I think it more
gruesome to
> blow people to bits than to kill them in other ways, and so do you.
It's
> also worse to burn them and bury them alive, or to kill in ways that
are are
> painful, disfiguring, lingering, etc. Does this need to be
explained? jks
>
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Ian



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