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From: thom@dewey.soe.Berkeley.EDU (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Computer Communication and the Gulf War
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Date: 29 Jan 91 18:40:18 GMT
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Adam M. Gaffin writes:

> Robert Werman, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been
> posting daily accounts - sort of a "Jerusalem Diary" -  in the Usenet
> group soc.culture.jewish.  A couple of other Israelis have also posted 
> various accounts there.

Thanks I'll check this out and the suggestions by Dave Taylor, the Wall 
Street journal article, but I'd like to hear some news from Inside Iraq. 
Dave suggested that "The people of Iraq, by the way, can't communicate 
with us via electronic means because they haven't the technology to do 
so, for the most part." I can't believe that the people of Iraq are any 
less advanced than the people of China were during the Tiennamen Square 
event -- that was an information fire storm with email and fax addresses 
bouncing all over the place. I may be just imaginative but I can't help 
but imagine that we've killed tens of thousands of civilian iraqis -- like 
in Vietnam -- and it isn't showing up on our news because the public 
doesn't like to see stuff like that.

I mean who do you trust in this situation? Dan Rather? Robert Werman? Why?

And I do think that this is the proper forum for discussing computers in the
war whether they are used for smart bombs or communications, it is all
computers in society.

Is there anyone who doesn't realize that the Gulf War is also an enormous
weapons testing research project. We are told about the successes, what about
the failures? How many have there been and what have been the consequences?

Thom Gillespie