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punistation Donating Member (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 03:28 PM
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US doing Al-Qaeda's propaganda work.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/death-dealt-in-moral-blur/2006/06/06/1149359742448.html

"THE defining distinction between what we do, and what terrorists do, has always been one of intention. They target civilians. We kill civilians — many thousands more, as it happens — by accident. They kill people. We cause collateral damage. That, ostensibly, makes us better."

"At a theoretical level, it's a distinction with substance. But in practice it's increasingly short on meaning. What is the moral difference between deliberately killing someone, and acting in the full knowledge that death will be an inevitable byproduct? How real is this distinction when we know for certain that our actions will kill thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of innocent people?"
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 03:48 PM
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1. when you bomb a building, even with a so-called 'smart bomb'
you intend to cause harm.

I don't see any other way around that argument.
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handsignals4theblind Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 04:10 PM
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2. it's all Semantics--Pentagon created Al Zarqawi terrorist spin!!
Maybe I will post a thread on why war is a form of terrorism. Maybe I will post a thread about CIA acts of terrorism that were blamed on leftists in Europe during the 70's.--ie Operation Gladio- Bologna Italy 1980 train bomb

Or better yet--i'll let General William Boykins comments in the Wall Street journal regarding the Phoenix Programme (The EL Salvador death squad option) being implemented in Iraq--as he hinted at in the Wall STreet Journal.Armed, funded, and trains with DIA,CIA/speical ops connections via the IRaq Interior Ministry--army, commandos, police.

As for AL Zarqawi-He does not exist of if he did he was killed long ago.
Not one piece of solid evidence nor any proof has been provided by the Pentagon or the sychophantic media that keeps the spin going.
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