On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Dave Howe wrote: > However, if strafeing an occupied house with helecopter gunships, rocket > launchers and heavy machine guns after a cursory "surrender or die" is > ignored, based on military intel (which as the WMD fiasco shows is > worthless if the PR spin department are demanding raw access to unfiltered > intel and filtering, not on reliability but on closeness of match to the > desired outcome) is to be the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of > the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok" > provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?
Hell, this has been the norm for a very long time. The rest of the world knows this as an American No-Knock Drug Warrant. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko