Date sent: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:07:07 EDT
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Subject: Re: state terrorism
> In a message dated 8/24/98 6:11:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> << Osama Bin Laden would die of old age before all this could be done. >>
>
> Um....at the moment, it looks like he could die of old age even WITH this.
>
> Madrone
And kill another ten thousand or so in the meantime. If we didn't get
him with our first attack, we should try again, for their sakes.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 24 20:25:20 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:25:13 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Maureen Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: state terrorism
At 04:43 PM 8/24/98 EDT, Madrone wrote:
>I have a couple of questions...
>
>Why this guy? Out of all the terrorists in the world, why are we once again
>shooting at and missing just one?
>
>And, what is the International Law on this? If we just bombed a place that
>was only making medicines, what will the legal repercussions be? And even if
>they WERE making a chemical that could be used to make nerve gas...do you have
>any idea how many chemicals are precursors to really bad stuff? Chlorine is a
>'precurser' to phosgene (sp), a gas used in world war II. We going to bomb
>the Chlorox people?
Well, we'd probably save more lives by bombing them then the sites in the
mid-east, since chlorine is one of those classes of chemicals that seems to
mimic estrogen, and may well be implicated in the precipitous rise in breast
and uterine cancer rates. If we were really serious about *saving*
"innocent" lives, surely we can think of better ways to begin then by
dropping bombs?!!
>
>What if Iraq bombed the Chlorox factories, on the grounds that they were
>making precursors to deadly gas?
Unless the NSA can prove that this pharmaceutical factory was producing
components for nerve gas, Iraq could, by the very same standards of logic,
begin bombing cities in the US that were making bleach, laundry detergent,
household cleaners, etc. Gets a bit absurd when the logic is followed to
its end, doesn't it?
What is the International law with regards
>to casually dropping bombs on other countries?
Hmm, last I heard, that was an act of political aggression, usually cause
for war.
Thanks Madrone, your post made me smile...
Maureen
