From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > 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"?

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.

> 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?

umm.. one can be used in the mountains of afghanistan?

Geo.

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