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From: nbc@rlvd.UUCP (Neil Calton)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1293@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 09:01:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlvd.1293
Posted: Tue May  6 09:01:32 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 01:33:25 EDT
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Reply-To: nbc@rlvd.UUCP (Neil Calton)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Division, U.K.
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In article <858@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP writes:

>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."
>
Well IRA terrorists have killed 1714 people in Britain since 1969.

>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.
>
Some of us would like to have our planet back when you war-mongerers
have finished playing games with it.
>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.
>
It is because they value freedom and innocent lives that they deplore
such irresponsible behaviour from a country we all once admired.

-- 
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
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