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The post that started this all: http://army.ca/forums/threads/23864/post-136340.html#msg136340
Would you leave the Depleted Uranium thing alone? It's been debunked hundreds of times by now. You're not just beating the proverbial dead horse, you're turning it into pink paste.
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CivU said:"If America is justified in attacking any persons who aid and abbet terrorists, then how are a number of people on Mr. Blum's list not also culpable in the same acts.
MCG said:CivU,
Are you defending that entire list of "war criminals"? Like this entry:
"General Norman Schwarzkopf, for his military leadership of the Iraqi carnage"
CivU said:No, I'm not. I did mention the Reagan administration and those involved with East Timor as specifically deplorable examples. The invasion of Panama by George H.W. Bush could also fall under the aforementioned category...As for Schwarzkopf, from what I gather of Mr. Blum's argument it is largely based around his use of Uranium depleted ammunition and the horrific effects it has had on both American troops and continues to have within Iraq itself. I do not think a General's leadership in an invasion itself can be considered a war crime.
mdh said:Well I have to give some credit to CivU for trying to remain consistent while living in the same intellectual slum as William Blum. It takes considerable moral gymnastics to equate Reagan, Clinton and Norman Swartzkopf with Japanese war criminals.
CivU said:If you actually read my posts I didn't "equate Reagan, Clinton and Norman Swartzkopf" but in fact associated a few persons on that list I felt stood out, and provided one reason why a specific action by Swartzkopf, the use of depleted uranium ammunition, should be seen as horrific.
Would you leave the Depleted Uranium thing alone? It's been debunked hundreds of times by now. You're not just beating the proverbial dead horse, you're turning it into pink paste.
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