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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (8709)	8/30/2006 12:10:41 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219598

Gib, it's not the method, it's who they do it to. Van Gogh? Guilty of? Needed a throat cut and a knife in the chest in their ideology. Head-hacking is very personal, so the individual's position can be considered. The killed one is not collateral damage. When Tim McVeigh killed children in Oklahoma, that was collateral damage. When the USA fried alive women, children and everyone else in Hiroshima, that was collateral damage. Same in Dresden. Same with the V1 in London. When Islamic Jihad head-hacks some benign old English gent then it wasn't by mistake. When they murder some Peace Corps woman, it's not collateral damage. As Schwartzkopf said after burying Iraqi soldiers alive with bulldozers, there's no nice way to kill somebody. Fry, gas, stab, explode, shoot, head-hack, ZyklonB, needle in the chamber - the amount of suffering might vary somewhat, but none are nice. Head-hacking is probably better than part-frying and irradiation with death to follow in a few days after vomiting and horror over a lengthy period. Napalm can't have been a lot of fun to receive either. Being gassed in WWI wasn't good either [according to my mother's uncle]. It's not that I think one method is more civilized than the other, though of course some are less barbaric than others. Smashing an old cat up with a hammer, starting at the tail, is more barbaric than a needle with anaesthetic. To me anyway. Maybe you think it's all the same. Not many American soldiers would have killed the women and children of Hiroshima one by one, though as shown in My Lai, and recently in Iraq, they can be found reasonably frequently [those are just the cases we hear about]. I dare say Islamic Jihad might not head-hack children, but they certainly are not worried about Jewish children, women etc in collateral damage on buses. Hopefully I've cleared up some of my thinking for you. Mqurice