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From: shadowrn@*********.com (Arclight)
Subject: OT - This acted of cowadice
Date: Thu Sep 13 11:20:01 2001
At 09:59 13.09.2001 +0200, Gurth wrote:

>According to darren malin, on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 the word on the street was...
>
> > Bull !!. It is Simple. This is Good v Evil.
> >
> > Any one who hits civinian targets of men woman and
> > children like this are Evil.
>
>Forgive me if I almost laugh about this, but I feel the need now to point
>out carpetbombing raids from WWII, in which the USAAF alone killed more
>innocent civilians in Germany and Japan than these terrorists could ever
>hope to as long as they don't have access to nuclear weapons. By your
>reasoning, that makes the US as "evil" (whatever that may mean) as those
>responsible for the WTC and Pentagon attacks.
>
>(And yes, you did mention that carpetbombing the "enemy" in this case would
>be wrong, but I don't think you thought it through entirely...)

Maybe because this was pretty normal back then? Oh, and my dad was a child
back then in hamburg, germany during the bomb raids in WW2.

Arclight

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