NP - Fighting the Forces of Invisibility

[David Morris]

Otto,

I think you know better, but are twisting both logic and my statements 
toward your own ideological end, which I won't try to characterize.  Let's 
just start out by clarifying that not all killing is intentional, and not 
all killing is murder.

Instead of poking at the obviously horrible "death of those 500.000 Iraqui 
kids" (BTW, I don't know this to be true, but will accept it for argument), 
why don't you offer what would have been the proper path w/ respect to Iraq 
and Saddam?  And included in the finger-pointing should be the culpability 
of Saddam in those deaths, no?  Why is Saddam and his army not starving?

Debating the merits of the Gulf War and its outcome is worthy pursuit in 
order to consider better alternatives for better outcomes, but is it really 
directly related to the WTC attack, other than through OBL's fury over US 
forces in his cradle of Islam?  Do you really wish to call the US a 
terrorist nation?

David Morris

PS.  How was THAT for a calm response, folks?

>From: "Otto"
>
>Rushdie:
>
>"Terrorism is the murder of the innocent"
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55876-2001Oct1.html
>
>This is no statement exclusively on the WTC-attack, this is a general 
>statement by Rushdie. So he logically says the accepted death of those 
>500.000 Iraqui kids (worth the price, just an inevitable collateral damage 
>according to Dave Morris) was terrorism too.
> >
> > Are you equating an unprovoked direct massive attack on civilians at the 
>WTC with the loss of human life inevitable in the course of a war?

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