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From: dc@datlog.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <573@dlvax1.datlog.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 12:48:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 25 12:48:12 1986
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Reply-To: dc@datlog.UUCP ( David Crone )
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In article <858@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP writes:
>> 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
>					...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res

I am sick and tired of the occaisonally brainwashed attitude of some of the US
readership of the net. Quadaffi may be the most vociferous exponent of Islamic
terrorism but he is neither the prime instigator or financier of international
terrorism. If the US (read Raygun) is particularly concerned in stopping 
terrorism then I suggest he turns his attentions to Syria, Iran and Iraq.

Also I think it is morally indefensible to answer terrorism with high-finance,
high-technology state terrorism.

I wish the UK had followed France's brave example in not accepting the US's
jingoistic attitude to the Middle East problem.



		Bye,
			David C.


NOTE: these are my views alone!!!!!

PS : For brainwashed - read blinkered , narrow visioned, imperialistic etc....