Reply #18: Sigh... [View All]

[JackRiddler]

Your explaination is the Clark purposely targeted innocent people because he wanted to and had some extra bombs to use and ran out of targets. All the while getting 19 UN nations and thousands of others to go along.

No. Why do I bother, when you can just project whatever you like?

My explanation is:

1) that when you drop thousands of bombs on any country, you will kill civilians. This is a statistically certain outcome. You can weasel all you like, but on European TV we saw plenty of dead babies killed by NATO bombs.*

2) Beyond this, many civilian targets are hit anyway, either with the dual-use excuse (those heavy-walled churches make great bunkers!!) or as part of the war strategy. NATO intentionally hit plants to shut down the civilian grid, and Shea bragged about it. ("Mr. Milosevic should know that we can switch off the lights whenever we like...")

* NOTE I exaggerate when I say bombing the station in Belgrade created a Western monopoly, or by inadvertantly implying that all Western stations then showed things the way the U.S. govt wanted it. Actually, plenty of other European media was present in Yugoslavia and getting the real story out. Not to mention courageous real reporters from the U.S. like Paul Watson of the LA Times, who exposed loads of NATO misinformation about the attack on Yugoslavia.

Now reread your own lovely rant:

You clearly don't realize that it takes 3-6 months to program a Tomahawk cruise missle. Amazing that 48 hours later they were able to program a missle that takes usually 6 months. The reason that we are able to go to war instantly with any nation is because we set up programs prior. The Chinese embassay use to be a storage building for weapons. WIth thousands of programs don't you think it is at all possible that one building was overlooked? Or like you believe the Tomahawk simply dials up www.mapquest.com and get directions to it's destination in route? I don't think so, these missles are programmed months, even years before because it takes a great deal of programming to get it within ten feet of the target. Our enemies know this and that is why they change buildings so frequently, it is the only real defense they have. You have no knoweledge of military operations do you. Do you even know how many targets a Tomahawk can hit? Who programs them? Or where they are designed? I doubt it.

What I do know now is that you are awfully proud of how our government has used trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to target EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE YEARS IN ADVANCE.

Obviously necessary for the defense of the Homeland.