Observations From Hadleyville: WARNING: BLOOD DEPRESSURIZATION IN PROGRESS 2

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

WARNING: BLOOD DEPRESSURIZATION IN PROGRESS 2

I saw the following quote today:

" … there’s no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber, both kill innocent people for political reasons.” — Tony Benn

...Nothing says agenda like willful stupidity. No moral difference? stealth bombers--and by implication ALL US military forces--do NOT purposely target innocent people. Suicide bombers do: period. They do it to terrorize the powerless. They do it to get "Peace Loving" idots to weep crocodile tears over poor victimized jerks who blow themselves up along with a bus load of school children. No moral difference! (insert derisive snort, here)

US forces have gone out of their way to develop precision guided munitions to avoid killing "innocent" people.

Benn, you are a fool.

1 comment:

Eric said...: What is so frickin hard about seeing that the U.S. has problems without lumping us in with terrorists? Are logic and rationality, especially when applied to morality, so lacking that people cannot see that there are different degrees of evil?

Thanks for highlighting Benn's lunacy. Glad to see you're recovering from your plumbing problems and back to commenting on stupidity and evil in the world.; October 4, 2007 at 10:45 AM

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