--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 7/16/07 10:58:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> In a  message dated 7/16/07 10:12:45 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> > >  do.rflex@ writes:
> > > 
> > > What od youn make of the fact  that the suicide bombs that go 
off 
> in
> > > > Baghadad on a  daily basis, killing scores of civilians, and 
> > offering
> > >  > an excuse to keep US forces there are in fact US cruise  
> missiles
> > > > lobbied into down town Bagdad?
> > >  > 
> > > > ROFLOL!!!!!! ROFL
> > > 
> > > Bwana  apparently thinks killing is funny.
> > > 
> > > Actually, I  think what you want others to believe is 
hysterical.
> > 
> > FWIW,  there may well be a grain (but only a grain) of
> > truth to what Peter  says, in that one explosion in 2003
> > may have been caused by a U.S.  air-fired weapon (though
> > not a cruise missile) that went astray and  landed in a
> > market, killing 60 people.
> > 
> > The link Peter  provided has details. The U.S., natch,
> > has denied it, but the incident  has never been
> > thoroughly investigated, and it remains  uncertain
> > exactly what happened.
> > 
> > Judy you are talking  about a "grain" of truth in a 10 pound
> > bag or rice.
> 
> Yes indeed.  That's why I said, "only a grain," don'cha know.
> Sorry I didn't specify the  weight of the whole bag, but I
> assumed it would be understood that by "only  a grain" I meant
> "very little (but not none)."
> 
> > If you read the  sentence it accuses the US of lobbing cruise 
> > missiles into Baghdad on  a daily basis. Do you believe that?
> 
> How could I have said "only a  grain" if I believed that?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So actually there wasn't even a "grain" of truth since the 
original  
> accusation was that US cruise missiles were being lobbed into 
Baghdad on a daily  
> basis and referred to as suicide bombers. But the article you cited 
was a one  
> time incident in 2003 and "may" have been a US fired air weapon, 
not a  cruise 
> missile.

The grain of truth is that U.S. weapons are
killing Iraqi civilians.


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