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--- Alun Harford <alunharford@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- 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. Hmm... Yes this is somewhat flawed by the fact that they don't care. Will have to use put miss in inverted commas from now on. The US air force - putting the 'miss' back into missiles and the US back into useless. 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