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From: res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sun, 20-Apr-86 21:34:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 20 21:34:14 1986
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> After watching the TV pictures of the american air raid against Libya
> I think that I have to regard this act as an act of state terrorism.
> In my eyes, Mr. Reagan is directly responsible for the death of
> children and innocent people. With this act, Mr Reagan uses
> similar methods as Gadaffi namely killing or wounding people who

In response to:

> are not responsible for their leaders' politics.
> 
> I hope that on the net and in America are some people who share my views.

I vehemently DISAGREE !!

I am pleased and proud that we finally have a President who has the
guts to stand up to a petty bully like Kaddafi and to deliver a slap to
his wrist to make him realize that he goes too far.  Look back at recent
history and YOU tell ME who is "directly responsible for the the death
of children and innocent people."

Back during the Carter administration Kaddafi was ASKED to not support
the killing of innocents by terrorists.  The brutal murders of innocent
men, women, and children continued.

Early in his first term in office Reagan TOLD Kaddafi to stop exporting
terrorism.  Innocent people standing in line at several airports were
machine-gunned and grenaded.

Recently Reagan waved a fist (the Navy) under Kaddafi's nose and WARNED
him to stop.  An American man and a Turkish woman died in a German
disco.  Several people, including a baby, were blown out the side of an
airliner.

You tell me, who has been cold-bloodedly murdering children
(machine-gunning school buses), blowing out the brains of an old man in
a wheel chair and dumping him from a cruise ship, and blowing innocent
civilians up in midair for the past several years?  Of course, it is
Kaddafi, through the terrorists that he has encouraged, trained, and
exported for several years.

I was angered when I learned that the planes involved in the slap on
Kaddafi's wrist were not allowed to over-fly France or Spain, adding
around 2500 extra kilometers to their flight, thereby greatly
increasing the hazard to these aircraft and their crews.  I am even
more angered that the people of Europe do not have the guts to stand up
to this petty tyrant in Libya, and are willing to accept the deaths of
innocents as a blood-price for their own uninvolvement.

But, what the hell, it is only Americans and Jews who are being killed,
and a few others caught in the crossfire, so why should a German or a
Spaniard, or a Frenchman give a damn?  These are not really people,
with loved ones and families who have been machine-gunned, and what
European really gives a fuck about an old American tourist in a wheel
chair whose brains were blown out for the amusement of a
Kaddafi-trained assasin?

As an American, and as a human being who is sick of reading in the
papers of yet another senseless death at the hands of terrorists, I
FULLY BACK my President in the actions he took.  I know that I could
not have exercised the restraint in limiting the strike as he did.  If
Kaddafi "retaliates" by killing more innocent people -- be it in
Germany, Italy, Greece, France, the United Kingdom, or the United
States -- I would GLADLY hear that Reagan graduated from slapping
Kaddafi on the wrist to LEVELING the city of Tripoli.

I am saddened that the free people of Europe think so little of their
freedom and so little of the lives of innocents that they are unwilling
to step down on that nasty little worm in Libya and free the world of
that sick murderer.

					Rich Strebendt
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