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Thread #57464   Message #904541
Posted By: Metchosin
06-Mar-03 - 01:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: No more human shields in Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: No more human shields in Iraq
maybe a dumb question, given the change in the nature of war in the last 100 years, but if the US and British object of this "game" is to get rid of the current regime in Iraq and eliminate purported "weapons of mass destruction" there, why would a water treatment plant be considered a legitimate military target? Wouldn't a target such as a water treatment plant (useless without power anyways), be a direct attack on the civilian population in particular and as such, a form of genocide?