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Originally Posted by Xaccers
She did, you just didn't understand it, while punky did.
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No, he (and you) have made assumptions which are not backed up by any facts, see my reply to him for more details.
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And what's the guarentees are there that by not breaking our own legal codes no lives would be saved? 100%?
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Rubbish!
You think that there's *no* way of saving lives *other* than by breaking our own legal codes? Ok, prove it.
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Here's a common sense/moral clash.
Incurable fatal disease. Simplest way to obliterate it would be to wipe out everyone who is a carrier - common sense, but morally that's awful.
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Not simple, just ludiculously simplistic.
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Your quotes from Bush make no mention of doing what america wants. It's quite open, even going as far as saying that they don't expect countries to send troops.
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Of course, because countries like Micronesia wouldn't *have* troops to send.
But what they *wanted* was those countries to say "Yes, we support this war against Saddam" with, amongst others, the very unsubtle implications that those who *didn't* might not get handouts or trade concessions next time Uncle Sam looks their way.
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Now if there is a nation, with no army, no inteligence service, not much political clout, but has a member in the UN, simply by voting on things which the UN decides would help against terror, like voting on an arms sanction for instance, that is doing something in the fight against terrorism.
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I think that second "UN" should read "USA"...
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I don't recall any reports stating that sewerage or water works were deliberate targets.
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I have already posted a link that cites exactly that! Here it is again...!!
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/19.../s91lopez.html
And here's another:
http://www.oz.net/~vvawai/sw/sw41/watertarget.html
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I also don't recall any reports stating that populated areas such as markets or civilian office blocks were being activly targetted.
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Irrelevant.
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'm pretty sure our military did its damndest to attack military targets.
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When you redefine civilian targets as "military targets", that's not surprising.