From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:40dbff5c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>>>How come? Surely that was "an act of war" &
not "an act of terrorism"?
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>>>Yes but officially it's classified as terrorism.
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>>But surely they're not the same thing.
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> No they are not, but in this case they are cause and effect. No other
terrorist
> attack before had put this country onto a "war footing" as
Bush likes to call
> it, but this one did.

&? That is a political decision not one based on any particular merits.
Did the Madrid bombing put Spain onto a "war footing"?

> We definitely gave up rights that we wouldn't have
> willingly given up if we didn't feel that this was an act of war.
>
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?

Adam

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