On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Dave Howe wrote:
However, if strafeing an occupied house with helecopter gunships, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns after a cursory "surrender or die" is ignored, based on military intel (which as the WMD fiasco shows is worthless if the PR spin department are demanding raw access to unfiltered intel and filtering, not on reliability but on closeness of match to the desired outcome) is to be the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok" provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?
Hell, this has been the norm for a very long time. The rest of the world knows this as an American No-Knock Drug Warrant. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko