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Innocent civilians deserving to be murdered? That's an interesting theory. Did the civilian population of Dresden or Hiroshima or Nagasaki deserve to be murdered? Some would say they did because they were the enemy and they had it coming. Others would say that any act of war must be limited to military installations. And then some will try to hedge the bet and say that all three of those were military installations.

I'm sort of divided on the question but I certainly reject the idea that war is ever restricted to military installations. And I appreciate the fact that Osama didn't have the military equipment to be able to attack the US and hurt it's military. I'm afraid that I have to accept the fact that he used one of the few means available to him.

And if he now uses a nuclear weapon on an american big city we are going to come back to the question of whether or not the US should have negotiated with him. In revenge for what the US has done in Iraq I think they will have it coming again!