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Subject: Re: U.S. Bombings - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 10:49:55 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov  4 06:52:00 1983

    Well, well!! The US just killed (murdered) 47 defenceless mental
    patients!!! Where are all the critics ??? 

    If Israel killed 47 mental patients by accident, the headlines
    would be flashing :

	"Barbaric and Ruthless Israelis Slaughter 4700 Innocent Patients"

    Don't deny it , it's happened before!

			Eli

Pardon me for being over-literal, but I have never seen a headline in any
mainstream paper in the U.S. which characterized an Israeli military
action as "Barbaric and Ruthless".  I happen to condemn the invasion of
Grenada, but that doesn't mean that I think that the Marines said, "Oh
goody, a mental hospital--let's bomb and strafe."

If you condemn the invasion, do so in rational terms.  If you are supporting
the invasion, why are you injecting the issue of casualties of Isreali
bombing?  Do you have a coherent opinion on the matter?

At some point, it will become clear whether or not these civilians died
because of an understandable error or massive ineptitude.  I would rather
wait until I can present something resembling a fact on the matter.
---
Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)