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To: mph who wrote (15943)	4/4/2006 2:29:23 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

It's not a form of protest; attacking civilians where they live is a deliberate tactic to cause instability and further the political ends of the people perpetrating it. It can be aimed at making the government look impotent, provoking retaliations and a higher level of ethnic/political/religious conflict, all sorts of tactical and strategic reasons. As I noted before, it has been practiced by many groups around the world, some of whom the US opposed and some the US supported. It sucks when you are the civilian target who has become a means to an end for the guy with gun or the bomb. The semantics probably don't matter much to the victims, justified or not. Like I said before, if we spend all our time condemning this evil in explicit terms, what will be different in Baghdad tomorrow?