[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:52:57 -0500

> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/12/2005 12:11:06 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal
>
> Andreas: The US "accidentally" kills civilians when they fire 
> rockets and machineguns indiscriminantly into cities.
>
> Eric: Cite some examples of the military "indiscriminately" 
> firing rockets and machine guns into cities. You say it happens, 
> so it must. Give examples.
>


Insurgents are everywhere and nowhere.  They've trained pigeons to signal
where the Americans are.  The people of Fallujah hate the Iraqi army as
much as they hate the Americans.  

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126748,00.html


Andy Amago


> The only even marginally related example I can think of is the 
> tank that accidentally fired on the Palestine Hotel during the 
> early stages of the war. The tank commander is being investigated 
> and possibly tried for that error. Meanwhile, terrorists have 
> tried to bomb the Palestine Hotel several times.
>
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