[lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

> 1) The planners of the raid thought it was a plant for manufacturing
> weapons; not medicine.  The intelligence, as we now know, was completely
> wrong.  I don't think anyone has argued that the Clinton team
intentionally
> bombed what they knew to be a pharmaceutical plant; if that was the case,
of
> course they should be doing time.

The Weiger Doctrine:  Nations get to drop bombs on buildings they suspect
might be housing activities they don't like.  The bombers only go to jail if
they can be shown to be using the disapproved activities as a cover story to
bomb nice civilian activities.  Domestic application:  If the robber who
shoots you says he only meant to wound you and yet you die, no murder
charges can be brought against the robber, as murder wasn't his stated
intent.