--- 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.
