<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I can no longer believe that this is a simple misreading.  It's a deliberate misrepresentation.    --C. G. Estabrook </BLOCKQUOTE> Try a deliberate rejection of your tendentious, mendacious spin, calculated to try to make an action taken in a way to minimize the loss of human life [a bombing at night which took one life, and which had the goal of abating the loss of life] the equivalent of an action designed to maximize the loss of human life [a bombing when upwards of 50,000 innocent people were present].  Try a deliberate rejection of an argument that is being presented without credible evidence. What you are doing is the intellectual equivalent of what the defense lawyers did in the Rodney King trial -- taking the obvious and self-evident, and trying to desensitize the observer by breaking it down into isolated frames -- so we should come away thinking that we see something different from what we actually saw. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>