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smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan) writes:

>In article schlut@oski.toppoint.de (Olaf Schlueter) writes...
>>crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
>> 
>> 
>>I blame the military at least for what i am reading in the newspaper
>>every morning: "As of military interest all reports about war actions
>>and VICTIMS are censored." I (as you I hope) dislike censorship in
>>general, but accept the reasoning of military no to inform the 
>>enemy about what it is doing and where it has been hit. 

>Why should we provide Saddam with free intelligence about the damage done
>to him?
>..
>>>>1. They drop 18000 tons every day on Iraq and Kuwait, and the 
>>>>   international Help organisations like the Red Cross guess, that 
>>>>   90 per cent of the victims are civilians. 
>> 
>>>    It would be a very bad guess (or did you just make this up).
>> 
>>Dont become unfair.  This information I took from the newspaper that
>>day.

>What newspaper and what day?

Tuesday, Jan 29th 91, Frankfurter Rundschau. "According to 
international commitee of the red cross 90% of the
victims in every armed conflict are civilians." And be sure
they did not stop monitoring this since WWII.


>..
>> That is a feature of your politics I absolutely
>>dislike: lonesome decisions, as you are TheBigBoss, and then the
>>call "Come on, this way". No "please". No discussion. That
>>you got that UN resolution is the only exception of this rule, I know.
>>And how many you persuaded and how many you bribe, is not clear
>>yet.

>Why didn't our 'bribes' work in Korea , Vietnam, Nicaragua or Cuba?

Because you had nothing to give or made no attempt to bribe for
example SU. Cold war already forgotten ?

-- 
Olaf Schlueter, Sandkuhle 4-6, 2300 Kiel 1, FRG, schlut@oski.toppoint.de
     Stop bombardment. Continue embargo. Start negotiations. NOW!
"Someone is always the evil in the land, and then the good guys are
marching, the eyes full of sand, into a holy war." Konstantin Wecker