I forgot to add that Eric has now said >To me, "we" was meant to describe the practices and activities of >the Marines in the Falujah battle. "They" was meant to describe >the activities of the terrorists. To me, this is not a defense of >the Bush administration, or of the decision to go to war. I note that I didn't say he'd defended the Bush administration or the decision to go to war. Really I am concerned only with arguments (defences, yes) that take the form "Yes I killed X, but B is a *mass murderer*" -- I refer list members to my first posts on this point. -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html