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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: LPS5 who wrote (442)3/24/2003 2:14:49 PM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Re: the Taliban/al Qaeda/other individuals who died in the storage containers: do you believe that such was incontrovertibly done intentionally

Are you suggesting that they could not have known that people stuffed in airless storage containers will eventually die?

This is like saying Nazis shouldn't be judged for the death of Jews in massive numbers due to lack of clothing, malnutrition, and overworking in hostile conditions. Human beings are fragile animals who tend to die without air, water, or food, in that order of urgency. You will have to explain why you think US soldiers couldn't have known Afghans would die in the unventilated containers they were stuffed into.

To answer your question, I doubt if it was intentional, but it was certainly NEGLIGENT, and possibly, very dumb.
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