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--- Stephen Hewitt <hewitt@cambridgeclarion.org> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Alun Harford wrote: > > > Here's another: > > > > The US air force - Putting the miss back into > missiles > > and the US back into useless. > > > > We need to be careful here. This sounds like clever > military propaganda, How dare you? It's MINE. :) > ostensibly critical of the Americans, but actually > propagating the > unobserved assumption that American missiles that > kill civilians are > "missing" specific intended targets. > > What evidence do we have that the missile that hit > Shu'ala market did not > hit precisely its intended target? Because cruise missiles cost a fortune, and the US are running out - it's a VERY expensive way to kill about 60 civilians. If there were deliberately targetting civilians, it's hardly value-for-money. Alun __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk