You know, you'd be much better able to get your case across, GUEST of 03-Apr-02 - 11:30 AM if there was some way of being sure you weren't the same as GUEST of 30-Mar-02 - 09:27 PM, for example. Or some of the others.

Not putting some kind of pseudonym with the GUEST just gets in the way. This isn't a time for playing silly games, and that does seem to me like a silly game.

One point of correction - the Sabra Shatilla massacres were actually carried out by Lebanese Christians, allied to Israel, not directly by Israeli soldies. That doesn't lessen Sharon's responsibility, since it seems clear that he had a good idea what was likely to happen, colluded in it, and obstructed any efforts to stop the massacre. But it's important to get the facts right.