From: Gary Britt 

No.  Cities were military targets in that kind of all out war where the
USAF and RAF were defending their home countries from a war they did not
start. The targets were the cities themselves and the infrastructure.  With
Japan they dropped leaflets warning civilians to leave the cities so that
they would not be killed.

Gary

Adam > wrote:
> Gary Britt wrote:
>> We were defining these things in terms of the Geneva Convention context
>> George and they were rebels or fighting an internal civil war.  They
>> fought against MILITARY targets.  Terrorists attack CIVILIAN
>> NON-MILITARY TARGETS.  So you and Adam are quite wrong in trying to
>> color every person fighting anything, anywhere, by any means, as a
>> terrorist.  Show me where George Washington sent people in to blow
>> themselves up on a school bus full of school children or admit you are
>> wrong on this.
>>
>
> So the USAF & RAF bomber command were terrorists when they targeted
> Hamburg, Nagasaki etc?
>
> Adam
>
>> Gary
>>
>> Geo. wrote:
>>> Ok well since the US was not independent at the time then any acts
>>> committed here were the same as if they were committed in England. So
>>> your rebel was a terrorist as were the rest of the founding fathers.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>>
>>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>>> news:4676015c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Yes if he was part of the non-state organization carrying out the
>>>> acts of war/terrorism against Portugal and working to support more
>>>> such acts of war/terrorism.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>> Geo. wrote:
>>>>> "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:4675abb3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> No Jefferson was a rebel in a civil war for
independence.  To be an
>>>>>> illegal enemy combatant he would have needed to go
to Portugal and
>>>>>> blow up the main square killing thousands and declare war on
>>>>>> Portugal because he didn't like how Portugal
treated somebody else
>>>>>> in Europe.
>>>>> If he had, would that have also then made Washington an illegal
>>>>> enemy combatant even if he had remained here? Most of
the people in
>>>>> gitmo were not in the US when captured.
>>>>>
>>>>> Geo.

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