Random Thought About al-Zarqawi
The Deacon
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:13 PM
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| Random Thought About al-Zarqawi |
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I know this is a hard concept for Republicans (who usually get their military planning strategies from remaindered copies of Tom Clancey novels) but targeting specific individuals during wartime is classified as murder by the Geneva Conventions on...oh...okay, never mind. Return to your reruns of American Idol on Survivor Island.
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| unpossibles
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:16 PM
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I remember hearing about those, but I thought they were disproved or something.
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| Sal Minella
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:20 PM
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| 3. They were officially antiquainted, I believe.....too wussy. |
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:17 PM
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| 2. Republicans getting their strategy from Clancy novels? Nope. |
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If they had, they would have realized after reading Debt of Honor that hijacked commercial airplanes could be used by terrorists as cruise missiles. Instead, the Bush administration acts as though such a thing was a sophisticated unheard-of concept.
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| The Deacon
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:24 PM
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That it is against the Geneva Conventions (and long standing American policy) to target individuals. (Okay, more honored in the breach than the observance.)
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| KyuzoGator
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Wed Jun-14-06 08:47 PM
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| 7. And those were both #1 bestsellers. |
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So for Bush to claim that nobody has ever heard of these tactics is bullshit.
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| Avalux
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:22 PM
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| 4. Everything changed after 9/11. |
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The Geneva Conventions were written before 9/11. See?
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| Benhurst
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Wed Jun-14-06 12:24 PM
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| 5. The Geneva Conventions were those silly things they used |
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to go by in the days of the Republic. Since the Coup we've become more pragmatic.
You can't make an empire without cracking a few skulls.
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