Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 BA>>>>> AAMOF, Ed, during the runup to and the invasion of
Iraq the US Air
 BA>>>>> Force deliberately targeted water purification plants, power
 BA>>>>> plants and electrical distribution stations and
telephone switch
 BA>>>>> facilities.

 EH>>>> Wouldn't you do the same?

 BA>>> Not when I'm trying to claim that I haven't yet decided to invade and
 BA>>> conquer the country, which Bush was doing right up to March 18,
 BA>>> 2003; the bombing started in mid-2002.

 EH>> What bombing started in 2002?

 BA> Softening up.  Things like telephone installations.  All under the guise of
 BA> protecting our aircraft as they violated Iraqi airspace.

Total nonsense. We didn't bomb until March 2003 when Iraqi Freedom started.

 EH>> Was it Bush's fault Clinton bombed
 EH>> Bahgdad in 1998?

 BA>>>  Besides, water plants at least are civilian
 BA>>> targets (power and telephones are dual-use; although one would think
 BA>>> that the military would have backups for them, which civilians would
 BA>>> not) - and to attack them is defined, quite properly, as a war crime
 BA>>> (as, incidentally, is starting an unprovoked war).

 EH>> You don't know what you are talking about. The US hasn't committed any
 EH>> "war crimes."

 BA> That it - or you - will admit to.

You're delusional.

Ed

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would be, that there is not sufficient virture among men for
self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can
restrain them from destroying and devouring one another."

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