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Monday, July 30, 2007 12:00 AM

When is an accidental civilian death not an accident?

When the Air Force asks permission first. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has rules for killing civilians. But do the rules actually save lives?
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  • Monday, July 30, 2007 08:03 PM

    Rule of 30, Hogwash

    This is our problem, limits upon what we can do. Now in WWII we burned up a lot of Germans in Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin. We incinerated a bunch of Japanese in Tokyo and of course with the bombs that the blessed Truman ordered to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    So what happened?? We won the damned thing that's what happened. We do want to win don't we or ain't we sure?

    —hunthorse Read hunthorse's other letters

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