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TLM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 05:46 PM
Response to Reply #60
64. Ordering troops to take ground and hold it against another force


is an attack.

Call it an order to occupy or an order to sieze, it is still an attack.

If the troops were "moved into position" and "established a presence" in your home, would you consider that an attack? Or is it only an attack if they shoot you with DU weapons?

"Again, NOT EVEN JACKSON claims it was to be an attack."

Yeah, that must be why he flat out refused the order because it would start WWIII, and the brits agreed with him.


"Everything else is just parsing second-hand information and diction."

You said it didn't happen, and now it seems your only defense of this is to parse the meaning of the term attack... and sorry but dropping paratroops in to take ground is an attack.

attack

\At*tack"\, n. 1. The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.

As for your 2nd hand information... 2 different sources, mine and yours, have confirmed that this did happen.



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