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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (23125)	3/19/2003 7:52:25 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 25898

I liked the off the cuff comment of some retired US military man relative to smart bombs in the last Gulf war. He said something to the effect that they would pay the defence contractor for the specific bomb IF it landed in the same COUNTRY toward which it was aimed........! Of course we know that time has passed since and technology has advanced a lot and now the technology is capable of targeting a specific hair an an insect's butt..... But it MIGHT also blow up a quarter of the city, but that is called "collateral damage" and the results are reported in a different category of the database... It is important to understand that there are NEVER civilian casualities to military operations because: -- the military only targets enemy military operations -- it does not REPORT civilian casualties So civilian casualties do not occur. Have you got that? DO NOT OCCUR. Of course some people do not obey orders and abandon their homes and become refugees--half a mil, a mil, who knows, who cares? Some people just don't know how to obey orders, and what can you do..........? Human suffering......? Well, you know, you are born, live for a while and die. What difference does it make? These Iraqis already have a population that is half children so however many of them survive the war will raise the next "crop". And if we have to mow 'em down again 10 years out, we'll do it. If you've got the "toys" how will you ever know whether they work if you don't test them out under "field" conditions? Thank the Lord Jesus that we are the ones with the toys! Namaste! Jim