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Thread #52072   Message #796438
Posted By: GUEST,McGrath of Harlow
03-Oct-02 - 07:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Subject: RE: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
You mean they actually got round to printing the leaflets in Arabic?

Mind, in English it comes across as pretty strange. Take that sentence: "The destruction experienced by your colleagues in other air defense locations is a response to your continuing aggression toward planes of the coalition forces." You could recite that in chorus, and it sound quite impressive. But pretty impenetrable

However it really is a weird use of language to describe aiming a missile at a hostile warplane flying over your own country as "aggression". I don't mean to say that there mightn't be good grounds for the warplane being there and all - but "aggression" is a weird word to use in that context. I'm sure that when the Germans fired at Allied planes over Germany it wasn't normally referred to as "aggression".