From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:40de0aef$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>>attack before had put this country onto a "war
footing" as Bush likes to
>
> call
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>>>it, but this one did.
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>>&? That is a political decision not one based on any particular merits.
>>Did the Madrid bombing put Spain onto a "war footing"?
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> I don't know what the mindset is in Spain, but I do know what it was like
here
> on 9/11 and immediately after and it was definitely not like after other
> terrorist attacks.
>

9-11 was very photogenic. I would say it was the most artistically striking
act of political violence I have ever seen.

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>>If it's an act of war then the opponents are combatants. What is the
>>difference between 1000lb of HE in a bomb dropped from an aircraft &
>>ones packed in a wheeled vehicle?
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> umm.. one can be used in the mountains of afghanistan?
>

Both can. The pickup truck will get just about anywhere 

Adam

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