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To: epicure who wrote (10673)	5/13/2004 1:13:23 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I would like to point out that Americans have routinely allowed public executions (to be filmed after the technology permitted it) during our last 200+ years. Doesn't anyone remember seeing the pictures of lynchings in the South? Or the pictures of hanged men in the Wild West? I think what really upsets some people (who may even be paradoxically pro-death penalty for the U.S. jurisdictions) is that they have to see it. I remember seeing some WWI b/w footage of guys moving comically fast across a field of craters, new ones blowing up, only to see soldiers drop and never stand again. What should one suppose that to mean? Simply put - a life's end. I found everyone's callousness to what was happening sort of shocking, the more I thought about it. But one has to THINK about it. A life's end. Is that what bothers people? No THAT is usually very selective and subjective, subject to many sets of situational qualifications. Is it any less ugly to see a shredded baby torn apart by cluster bombs and to hypocritically label it collateral damage? I don't hear any outrage about that! Berg was civilian in a war zone, but of the WRONG country. Is it less bad that citizens of West Africa are to be eaten alive by sadistic cultish thugs of their own country, or outsiders? The world can be a messed up place and to exacerbate it with unrequired military initiatives seems to lack wisdom, compassion and direction. We faced no immediate threat from Iraq. Our presence in Iraq was an unrequired military initiative. Anyone who cared to look could see it as such.