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Stephen Joseph Smith conveys a number of statistics about the population
of Iraq, the people killed in World War II, and so on.

I have no idea what this response to my posting means!  I can't find any
'facts' in this response -- just meaningless data.  The propaganda our
government has been putting on the tube visually suggests that the
'smart' bomb, computer guided, will somehow result in less civilian
death then in the past.  Looking at the pictures of Basra on NBC leads
me to believe either we don't have a lot of smart bombs or we just
forgot to use them on Basra so we 'carpet' bombed and the result is that
a city with a former population of 1.5 milion is either all dead or
running around Iraq searching for a way out of the madness.  Where would
you be Steve in the midst of this sort of bombardment?  Sitting in a
basement reading the Information Please Almanac to reach the
mathematical conclusion that you won't die?  Or would your fear be
assuaged by the reality that when possible the angels flying above would
when possible use 'smart' bombs?

How many video tapes do you think the military have which show their
'smart' bombs doing an 'opps'!  Have you seen them show us any mistakes
where they razed a mosque or 2 by accident?

We see what the American government wants us to see.  We see the
Nintendo-ization of the Middle East.  Computers make us feel good because
they are intelligent, and they follow rules, and computers are 'very'
american...  and somehow the death and distruction we cause with our
computer guided warfare is more humane than the nasty 'gas' that the
Iraqis use.  If we count just the bodies on the ground todate, what has
killed more?  Gas or 'smart' bombs?  What will kill more?  We poured
Naplam and Phosphorous all over villages in VietNam, was that as bad as
gas?  And then there is the ultimate computer weapon, the Nuke.  We are
talking a lot about that one lately.  Think maybe our government is
trying to get us used to 'the idea'?  Maybe we have a 'smart' nuke.  I
hope so.

Steve, there are a lot of dead bodies in Iraq today and there will be
more tomorrow.  And in the end there will be as many as in any war past.
The one thing about technology is that we are able to kill more faster
-- not less!

Thom