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To: teevee who wrote (11975)	11/30/2001 10:45:13 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

America has eliminated 100's of thousands of enemies of America, with high percentages of innocent civilian deaths, through proxies such as Pinoche, the Shah, the Royal Saudi family Most of the killing done by these people where to wipe out their enemies. Sometimes there enemies happened to be ours as well, but It wasn't like we could just tell Pinochet or the Saudi's to do this, and do that, and kill this person, and jump through this hoop and they would follow our commands. We were dealing with a lot of violent people, not peace loving democrats and perhaps we deserve some blame for that but they had their own agenda. It was more a matter of us overlooking the nasty things they did if they supported us on something, or sometimes putting someone in power and then overlooking their atrocities, then it was having our proxies wipe out our enemies at our command. As for the specific accusation of the British troops being stained with war crimes, that sentence came right after a statement about killing prisoners attempting to escape after an armed prison uprising. That doesn't seem to qualify as a war crime to me. Tim

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