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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161650)	5/9/2005 5:12:43 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

Blue lights, that's the way ... in BC it is illegal to have blue lights on your vehicle, only the mounties can have them, flashing back and forth between red and blue ... so if you see blue, it's the mounties, nice and simple ... the fog of war and/or of night is no excuse for not having set up a system that works - if you can see well enough to machine-gun somebody, you can make your blue flashing light visible to them.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161650)	5/9/2005 5:30:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Maurice as I said "I recognize my opinion of the truth could be wrong". And yes bias can play a role in that. I'm dealing in facts, that doesn't mean I'm always right or that I am perfectly without bias. Don't you think the "proper procedures" were lacking a little something? When the outcome of proper procedures results in a lot of innocent dead people, it could just be possible that the procedures aren't quite hunky dory and could use a tweak here and there. There might be some tweaks that are possible, even desirable but they wouldn't make the problem go away. It would be a change at the margin. Such as shining brilliant flashing blue red orange lights in a beam down the proposed trajectory of the bullets as a warning that they have better stop. That would do better than a waving hand. I believe they did flash lights. I don't know if they where "blue red orange" lights but they did flash lights. so, what the people in Varese think doesn't matter a damn If it wasn't Varese, it could be some other place. Somebody is going to find something not to like. Either the soldiers did the right thing for the circumstance or they did not. If they did do the right thing than there is only so much we can care about what the people of Varese think. If they did the wrong thing than we have to deal with that, even if the people of Varese were happy with the result. Its not about "what does Varese think", just as it isn't about chanting "USA". Its about dealing with reality. If my opinion of the fact in the case is wrong, than its wrong but it isn't wrong because of what someone in Varese says. Tim