DAVID
IRVING writes:

YOU seem to have little understanding of International Law, which is there for the protection of our combattants as much as theirs. You seem to hold that it does not apply to Arabs, just as in the past Americans believed that it did not apply to the Japanese and the Vietnamese. This attitude smells of killer-racism.

On your argument, all farm carts and vehicles (in Iraq that is, not on the prairies of the US Mid West) are legitimate targets, so long as the killer Apache crews are afraid to venture close enough (or even land) to make certain. That does not make for a good harvest in Iraq in the long run. As for the beheadings: the Nick Berg episode appears to have been staged, or at least exploited, by US Army
Psywar to get the commander-in-chief (hail to him,

on Nov 2) off the Abu Ghraib hook.

Such grisly episodes are very small beer compared to the almost daily onslaught on civilians by US-manufactured cruise missiles, Apache gunfire, and Spectre C-130
gunships firing thousands of rounds of 30mm cannon fire a minute, and the 500-pound high-explosive bombs that are launched, off camera of course, from a very safe altitude at
Iraqi civilians (and for that matter at
Palestinian civilians too).

“Precision targeting,” we are told: but then we see the photographs of which you write, and they speak a different language.

Small wonder that the
American government in a short space of time has made its subjects the second most hated people on earth: Because the rest of the world sees the images that are withheld from the Americans.
[WTC]

The American people, who coined that wonderful phrase “what goes around…” have already found once, on Sept 11,
2001, how true it is, although they still won’t admit it; and they will keep making that mistake until they stop trying to impose the Peace of the Graveyard on the oil-rich Middle East in which they have taken a predatory interest, under whatever pretext.

I guess you could not care less, as you say, because you don’t have a son or grandson sent by a war-criminal government to fight the people of Iraq.

I do. And once again, when the good ol’ US Army stumbles, just as it did at the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, it is the British grenadier, the soldier of the
Black Watch, who is now being sent for, to repair the damage (or in modern parlance, put his butt on the line).

* Aubrey
Soper corrects me on Friday, August
27, 2004 about the armament carried by the Spectre gunship: