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Author: Baba MungBaba Mung Date: May 31, 2008 11:36
"Charlie" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On May 31, 9:54 am, JD Cooper whocares.org> wrote:> Baba Mung wrote:
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>>>Jim Chandler gte.net> writes>
>>>>JD Cooper wrote:
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>>>>The incendiaries were a form of cluster bomb. The main bomb was dropped
>>>>and broke open in freefall scattering the incendiary charges over a
>>>>greater area.
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>>>>Jim
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>>>Yep! We had some fall on Manchester. Have you ever been on the
>>>receiving end? Gives you a whole new perspective. ;-)
>>>--
>>>Gordon H
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>> Have aircraft ever bombed an American city? So far as I know all of the
>> USA's major engagements in the last 60 years have been conducted a long
>> long way from the American mainland. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq,
>> and
>> never against an enemy capable of putting a military aircraft over an
>> American city.
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>> Baba
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> in fact, "enemies" capable of putting military aircraft over our cites
> are also smart enough not to. We'd be speaking of the USSR, ferzample.
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The ability to retaliate is a very effective deterant. Appeasement is
an invitation.
Charlie
Which goes some way to explaining how Iraq came to be occupied , and also
why it would be perfectly rational of Iran to want to acquire a nuclear
capability.
Baba
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