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To: zonder who wrote (55152)	10/28/2002 11:38:22 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

"It is a war crime to nuke civilian cities", Is there any other kind?? I don't know of too many "military cities".. And isn't placing military manufacturing in a civilian city a "war crime"?? Does that make a "civilian city" a military target?? And where is it illegal to use explosives to destroy military manufacturing?? Thus, by deduction the bombings of Japanese cities, where manufacturing was conducted in "cottage industries", decentralized into almost every individual residence, was NOT illegal, nor a "war crime".. But let's take this one further step.. War is a crime Zonder... It's what happens when civil relations between nations and people break down and they fight to achieve total victory over the other.. And "war crimes" are determined by the victors, generally when they have had war forced upon them by an aggressor and they seek to obtain "justice" against the perpetrators of that war. You are the one who made the claim that "nuking civilians cities" is a war crime. I merely took it one step further by stating that "civilians" lose any protection of these non-binding laws related to conducting war, when they engage in activities meant to further that war... Hawk