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  • A little more emphasis on how Hamas, AND THE "CIVILIANS" who put them into power want to die and completely dupe the masses would have been nice, but that's ok.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • THEY ARE ALL MINE, THE KIDS THEY KILLED, THEY ARE ALL MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY, THE "CIVILIANS" THEY KILLED, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

    Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan - small insignificant victims, big disasters for U. S. empire. Michael Caddell 2006

  • THEY ARE ALL MINE, THE KIDS THEY KILLED, THEY ARE ALL MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY, THE "CIVILIANS" THEY KILLED, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

    Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Caddell 2006

  • Comitting violent acts against CIVILIANS for political aims is the very DEFINITION OF TERRORISM.

    Think Progress » IRS building in Utah evacuated, two employees taken out on stretchers after reports of white powder. 2010

  • They killed so many innocent civilians in Gaza and destroyed ANYTHING & EVERYTHING that they could but when 1 Israeli soldier got wounded/killed it was worse to them then when 100 INNOCENT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS GOT KILLED BY ISRAEL!

    Wonk Room » Clinton: Hoping For The Best, Preparing For The Worst 2009

  • Note requirement for Top Secret Clearance as well as the job being for CIVILIANS.

    pat rogers 2010

  • Again, no moral equivalence, I see no comparison in how the illegal enemy combatants are waging this war and how the US is waging this war, the US doesn't fly commercial airliners into buildings killing thousands of innocent CIVILIANS nor does the US INTENTIONALLY target civilians and in the cases where innocent civilians were killed by the US it was due to our enemies INTENTIONAL TACTIC of conducting its operations amongst civilian populations!

    legitgov 2009

  • Where IS your outrage regarding Hamas using civilian HOMES, complete with CIVILIANS to use as a base for operations till Israel obliterates it? you have nothing but contempt for Israel, but where is your contempt for the militants who use HUMAN SHIELDS to launch their attacks behind? your rhetoric could be copied and pasted from the anti Israeli web sites.

    Not Getting Gaza News on Al Jazeera? Then You're Not Getting the News. Here's How to Get it On-Line. 2009

  • Either they are SOLDIERS, in which case they are POWs and deserve MUCH better care than they are getting, or they are CIVILIANS (though not US citizens) and deserve every CIVILIAN protection under the laws!

    Heather Robinson: NYC Trial Of High-level Terror Masterminds Will Violate Civil Liberties -- Of Americans 2009

  • The difference between using a non-lethal interrogation technique such as water boarding versus strapping bombs to yourself and blowing up yourself and killing INNOCENT CIVILIANS whose only "crime" was to be shopping at their local mall with children in tow or flying civilian airliners full of INNOCENT CIVILIANS (INCLUDING CHILDREN) into buildings resulting in the MURDER of 3,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE IS NOT MORALLY EQVUIVELANT TO A NON-LETHAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUE CALLED WATER BOARDING!

    legitgov 2009

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