On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:03:45 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:51:26 -0500, Jake Nichols
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:20:26 -0700, "Dan"
wrote:


A military has few compunctions about firing on armed
combatants, but is more reluctant about doing so on unarmed
civilians.



Kent State University

And in the middle of the Turbulent 60s, with bomb throwers, mass
riots, takeovers and thrashing hundreds of universities, the only one
you can come up with is Kent State?

Four Dead in Ohiiiooo!

Sounds pretty ****ing reluctant to me.

Gunner


And since we are discussing the US military and civilians.. lets not
forget that we (USA Military) has now sunk to kidnapping as well.

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/7/28/17267240.cfm

Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry
Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the
intelligence. Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife
and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you
want your family released, turn yourself in."

And torture

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...news-headlines

ASHLEY, Pa. -- Last year at this time, the four Army reservists were
civilians, leading middle-class lives in the coal-laced hills of
Pennsylvania they had always called home. Two were preparing for
college, one was a state trooper who spent the summer running a camp
for kids, and a fourth had served in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was a
prison corrections officer.

Today, 6,000 miles away and on active duty, the four are at the center
of a controversy that has shaken this old mining town, where their
320th Reserve Military Police Battalion is based: They have been
charged with mistreating and beating Iraqi prisoners of war -- charges
that could lead to courts-martial and prison.