From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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 that I am.
>
> I am saying that the "laws and customs of war", which George was using
> to justify treatment of captives, do not exist except as polite
> fictions.
>
>

I agree.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility -- British
Sea Lord John Fisher

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen
its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. --  Dwight David Eisenhower.

Humanize war? You might as talk about humanizing hell! -- British Admiral
Jacky Fisher

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