Re: What if Reagan was tried for war crimes ?

[B2431]

>From: "tim gueguen"


And bombing people is not a war crime.
>
>tim gueguen 101867


It is if the target has no tactical or strategic or other legitimate value.

Bombing Libya at that time was of legitimate value in that it convinced Qadaffi
to reduce his terrorist support.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

[The Enlightenment]

"B2431" > wrote in message
...
> >From: "tim gueguen"
>
>
> And bombing people is not a war crime.
> >
> >tim gueguen 101867
>
>
> It is if the target has no tactical or strategic or other
legitimate value.
>
> Bombing Libya at that time was of legitimate value in that it
convinced Qadaffi
> to reduce his terrorist support.
>
> Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Osma used the same reasoning.

[Stephen Harding]

Conquistador wrote:

> Goodbye and Good Riddance
> By PHIL GASPER
>
> Ronald Reagan has finally died at age 93. Predictably, politicians from both
> major parties have issued gushing tributes to this venal and vicious man,
> who was happy to slash workers' wages, see families thrown onto the street,
> support sadistic death squads and bomb other countries, if this was in the
> interests of the American ruling class.

Yet who was alegedly "asleep" during most of his presidency,
and didn't even know the names of his cabinet members.

Pretty amazing accomplishments while you sleep, huh?

> Full: http://www.counterpunch.org/

Counter crap more correctly, but what could one expect when
the name "noam chomsky" appears in one of the cross postings.


SMH

[Tamas Feher]

>Gee, I wonder what the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie had to do with
terrorism?

That was the work of the Iranians to retaliate for the Mecca pilgrimage
Airbus that was downed by Vincennes. But the US did not dare to target
Iran again because of the embassy raid fiasco and singled out Libya, a
much weaker country.

[Matt Wiser]

"Tamas Feher" > wrote:
>>Gee, I wonder what the Pan Am bombing over
>Lockerbie had to do with
>terrorism?
>
>That was the work of the Iranians to retaliate
>for the Mecca pilgrimage
>Airbus that was downed by Vincennes. But the
>US did not dare to target
>Iran again because of the embassy raid fiasco
>and singled out Libya, a
>much weaker country.
>
>
Oh? Considering two Libyan Intel Agents were tried, one convicted, and
that Khadafy has admitted Libya's involvement and is paying into a compensation
fund for the families, I'd say Libya was fully and completely responsible.


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[Matt Wiser]

Stephen Harding > wrote:
>Conquistador wrote:
>
>> Goodbye and Good Riddance
>> By PHIL GASPER
>>
>> Ronald Reagan has finally died at age 93.
>Predictably, politicians from both
>> major parties have issued gushing tributes
>to this venal and vicious man,
>> who was happy to slash workers' wages, see
>families thrown onto the street,
>> support sadistic death squads and bomb other
>countries, if this was in the
>> interests of the American ruling class.
>
>Yet who was alegedly "asleep" during most of
>his presidency,
>and didn't even know the names of his cabinet
>members.
>
>Pretty amazing accomplishments while you sleep,
>huh?
>
>> Full: http://www.counterpunch.org/
>
>Counter crap more correctly, but what could
>one expect when
>the name "noam chomsky" appears in one of the
>cross postings.
>
>
>SMH
>
Why anyone would listen to anything Chomsky (a notorious apologist for
Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Slobodoan Milosevic, Fidel Castro, among others)
is something I'll never understand. Chomsky doesn't belong at MIT, he belongs
in Federal Prison on Aid and Comfort to the Enemy charges at least, and Treason
at most.

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[Matt Wiser]

(Deborah Sharavi) wrote:
(ChupaCabra) wrote
>in message >...
>>Gaddafi Regrets Reagan 'Did Not Stand Trial'
>
>
>Funny!
>
>>Reagan ordered the air raid on April 15, 1986,
>in response to a disco
>>bombing in Berlin allegedly ordered by Gaddafi
>that killed two US
>>soldiers and a Turkish woman and injured 229
>people.
>
>So Gaddafi won't feel neglected, how about putting
>him on trial for war crimes?
>
>Deborah
That would be great-harboring Abu Nidal, assisting the IRA, Baader-Meinhof,
Pan Am 103, etc. are things he himself has yet to answer for personally.


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[OXMORON1]

Steve asked about Carter:
>That's why he wasn't re-elected and was so unpopular with his countrymen?

Carter was probably "Too" ethical to make a good politician and ineffective
with his foreign policy and domestic issues.
IMHO Carter got elected as backlash from the Nixon era BS and failed to get
returned to office due to things like the Iranian Hostage fiasco and economic
home front issues.

Oxmoron1
MFE

[Brian Earp]

> >
> > No it isn't. Good post 'til the last bit.
>
> That was sarcasm - I didn't think it needed highlighting.

Fair enough.

>
> The point is that the extent of the "evil" associated with being a
> "sponsor of terror organisations" (or whatever happens to be the hip
> term at the moment) is totally dependant on the alignment of those
> terror organisations relative to the political beliefs of the
> person(s) making the call.

Right, just wait while I go get my dictionary..

:-)


Rgds

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