<HTML>Claire wrote:
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> All wars are precisely about killing innocent people.
****While president Bush might call it a "War agains terrorism" there are no provision in International Law (so far) for a legal declaration of war between sovereing states and a group (or groups) of terrororists
> The German people aren't Nazis - they weren't responsible for the
> holocaust or for the foreign policies of Hitler.
****Weren't they Claire??? Not only did they vote National Socjalists into power but Nazi'z policies were entusiastically supported by overwhelming majority of German population.
On the other hand Taliban conquered Afganistan by the force of arms and average Afgani had no say it this matter what_so_ever.
> But do you think we should have fought that war?
****YES
> There is no point saying that it is morally acceptable to kill 'guilty' people
> in war, but immoral to kill the 'innocent' - who judges who is which?
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****Hmmm that's almost exactly what bishop of Besancon said when asked how to tell apart catholics and Kathar heretics before the sloughter started: "Kill them all, God will recognise his own".
Regards D.P.</HTML>
