Judy Evans wrote: "I imagine we can count most of the women and children as civilians." I imagine that women and children can pull the trigger of an AK-47 and that Hezbollah has trained women and children to fight. Given what we know women of the region are capable of, see suicide bombers in Israel and Iraq, such a myopic perspective is quaint. Judy again: "To inflate the "civilian dead" statistics? really?" Really really. Nothing gets the unwashed Arab masses as roiled as when told that many innocent Arab women and children were slaughtered by the Zionists. To get them tossing candy in the streets, tell them that Zionist women and children were blown to pieces. Hezbollah 'won' by ensuring both. Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html