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RE: Okay, let\\\'s settle this matter once and for
Posted by: Rainer Bruns ()
Date: March 07, 2001 03:37PM

<HTML>Hi Frank,
Your comments above gave pause for thought. The matter of fact manner of your description re the \"shredding\" of dead Iraqis is astounding news to me. I thought with the absence to the draft the USArmy became more professional than a looting mob. To me (and I suspect to many others) there is a huge difference between picking up a discarded souvenir from a battlefield and hacking off a finger of a dead enemy soldier. The next step (not a large one) would be to rape and pillage the civilian population, while one is at it. According to your description I guess the basic attitude of chivalry towards the vanqished is not encouraged by USArmy leadership.
Anyone who knowingly obtains such ill gotten items second hand for collections, is not noticably higher in my esteem than \"grave robbers\".
I am not quite sure, what you intended to convey in your last two sentences, but I disagree emphatically. Just as yours, dissenters\' rights to sound off should not be abridged, even if negative, as long as reasonable manners are observed.
Rgds, RB</HTML>

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Okay, let\'s settle this matter once and for all Frank Blazich 03/07/2001 02:55PM
RE: Okay, let\\\'s settle this matter once and for Rainer Bruns 03/07/2001 03:37PM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\'s settle this matter once and Tom Iwanski 03/07/2001 05:45PM
RE: Okay, let\\\'s settle this matter once and for Steve 03/07/2001 03:46PM
Semper Fi, Dude! Karl D. 03/07/2001 04:24PM
RE: Semper Fi, Dude! steve 03/07/2001 05:05PM
RE: Semper Fi, Dude! Karl D. 03/08/2001 04:59PM
RE: Semper Fi, Dude! Rainer Bruns 03/08/2001 06:33PM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\'s settle this matter once and Frank Blazich 03/07/2001 06:53PM
RE: Okay, let\\\'s settle this matter once and for Yuri IL\'IN 03/07/2001 04:39PM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\'s settle this matter once and John Griffiths 03/07/2001 05:25PM
RE: What has this got to do with U-boats? Kurt 03/07/2001 11:38PM
My two cents... Ben B. 03/08/2001 05:59AM
U 508 Don 03/08/2001 05:55AM
RE: U 508 Anders Wingren 03/08/2001 06:44PM
U 508 Don 03/08/2001 05:57AM
RE: Okay, let\\\'s settle this matter once and for Fin Bonset 03/08/2001 01:06PM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\'s settle this matter once and Steve 03/08/2001 02:17PM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s settle this matter Fin Bonset 03/08/2001 06:49PM
RE: Okay Yuri IL\'IN 03/09/2001 01:15AM
RE: Okay, let\\\\\\\'s settle this matter once and John Griffiths 03/08/2001 06:26PM


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