William Black
8/28/2012 1:31:00 PM
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:23:57 -0700, "Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D."
<drvq@coldine.edu> wrote:
>Bill wrote:
>
>> As far as anyone's can work out the people from Reuters who were
>> killed seem to have died because of a cock-up rather than any
>> deliberate act of murder.
>
>ah...a question...what is murder...
>
>Son, the unnecessary classifying of millions of documents, like the
>Reuters video (usually called "Collateral Murder") as TOP SECRET was
>not a "cock-up", but instead has the motive of hiding the war from
>the American people...
Nothing TOP SECRET has been released by Manning.
IMO these
>U.S. Army men did not act responsibly, either due to poor training or
>anti-Arab racism (most Americans think/thought Iraqis are Arabs)...and
>continuing to allow irresponsible killing of innocent people is murder.
No court in the world would convict these men of murder.
>Secondly, if one believes the U.S. invaded a country based on lies, then
>the resulting war is immoral and therefore a "deliberate act of murder".
See President Bush about that one.
>> Or do you think the United States is in the business of murdering
>> sympathetic journalists?
>>
>> If so, why?
>
>Yes, we are in the business, at our discretion, of murdering those (not
>just "sympathetic journalists") who we perceive as standing in our way of
>making money (a major reason for war) or who *might* be a military threat in
>the future if they dare to defy our demands.
Answer the question.