On 2 Aug 2002 at 15:54, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees] Of course the US knew that there would most likely be
> civilian casualties, but such casualties, for the thousanth frigging
> time, were NOT THEIR INTENTION, while the Twin Towers deaths were
> EXACTLY BIN LADEN'S INTENTION. Do I have to draw you a Venn Diagram
> to illustrate the blatantly obvious difference?
>
> [Hermit] Joe, were you present in the meetings? How do you know what
> the intentions were? After all, the US claimed that they were
> attempting to avoid civilian casualties during the Gulf war - and FOIA
> requests later showed that to be a lie, that the US had in fact
> deliberately targeted both civilians and civilian infrastructure. And
> I recall correctly, you were one of those who asserted that this was
> not the case until shown incontrovertible proof. Are you sure that
> this is not the same case here?
>
I was not shown incontrovertible proof; infrastructure was targeted, not
the populace (if we'd been wanting to do that, we could have easily
racked up ten million or more very quickly). we were not deterred,
however, by civilians being huddled around it as human shields. And if
we had wanted to kill a million Afghans, we could have done it very
easily; a few daisycutter bombs on their population centers, rather than
on taliban front lines and Al Quaeda mountain strongholds, would have
more than sufficed. Use the IQ points you believe that you have, rather
than asserting or rhetorically asking emotionall driven absurdities.
>
> Hermit
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