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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: Dharmananda
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:09
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> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:43:16 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:
> 
>>Thomas� wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> The media has mis-stated the extent of collateral damage and civilian
>>> casualties from day one.��Sunni�rebels�were�sniping�at�Shiite
>>> civilians, not to mention Iraqi Police patrols and American troops in
>>> the Fallujah area for months.��We�should�just�look�the�other�way�and
>>> ignore it??
>>
>> 
>>You're lying through your teeth.  The embedded reporters were censored by
>>the military, and the only reason why we know anything at all about
>>conditions in Fallujah is that they have been reported by wounded American
>>soldiers, and my an aid mission.
> 
> Reported by wounded American soldiers to who?  Those same reporters
> who are being 'censored?'


To the mainstream press, after they were sent home.  Do you EVER read?


> (Did you think about this at all before you typed it?)

Believe, I knew exactly what I was doing.

> 
> 
> 
>>
>>OVERWHELMING FIREPOWER WAS AN OVERWHELMING MISTAKE IN FALLUJAH.  THERE
>>WERE, BY THE BEST ESTIMATES OF THE US DOD, SOMETHING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
>>OF 80,000 CIVILIANS IN FALLUJAH, AT THE TIME WHEN IT WAS SUBJECTED TO THE
>>MOST INTENSE AND SUSTAINED BOMBARDMENT IN THE HISTORY OF WAR, WITH THE
>>EXCEPTION
>>OF THE DROPPING OF NUCLEAR ARMANMAENTS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAKASAKI.  IT IS
>>BEING PERCIEVED AS AN OVERHELMING SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS, BY THE
>>ENTIRE PLANET, BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.
> 
> Just how many bombs do you think were dropped on Falluja?

Too many.

> 
> 
>>
>>DON'T LIE TO ME, YOU WITLESS THUG.  YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WENT ON OVER
>>THERE, AND I DESPISE YOU WITH EVERY ATOM OF MY BODY FOR BEING A COWARDLY
>>LIAR ABOUT IT.
> 
> PS - your caps lock key appears stuck and you are coming across as a
> loon.

Attitude, attitude, attitude!  Anything to avoid the issue.



-- 
Triratanam sharanam gaccami
Dharmananda

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