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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (27098)	4/26/2002 9:11:03 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

The press was denied access. I've been denied access (because I haven't asked ;0) and have only seen pictures taken from passing aircraft... But I can clearly see the severest damage was localized at the area where the Israelis stated they had engaged the terrorist fighters.. maybe 5-10% of the total urban area. And if there is "bias", why should the Israelis provide them potential "ammunition" to promote that bias? Not granting them access makes their reports "speculation" with little documentation.. And most of their information comes from Palestinian "stringers" who are likely to be the most biased of all. As for war crimes, in my opinion all war is a crime... But there's no objective legal authority who can TRULY adjudicate them since every nation has been guilty of them... Obviously it wasn't a war crime for the US to bomb and blast towns and villages in most of its wars, where suspected enemy troops were located (without giving advance notice either).. And war crimes commissions are usually held by the victors, not the vanquished. So let's not delude ourselves into believing war is civilized, or can be governed by the rules of civilized behavior, at an individual level. I reserve war crimes violations for institutionalized violations against humanity, such as genocide (who's been indicted and convicted in Ruwanda?) where it's pretty clear there was intentional and systematic violations of human rights.. But then we fall back to that most basic premise being that human rights might be inalienable in the eyes of god, but in the eyes they are perishable if they cannot be defended.. And defended through a process called war, which generally involves massive violations of the other sides human rights. Hawk