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Is it a real war?

The Gopher · 2003-03-20 18:52:51

Yet again the USA has declared something that the rest of us call war but that they call military action.Since world war 2 the USA has not officially made a declaration of war-Korea was done under the guise of UN peacekeeping,Vietnam started in the early 1960s when teams of advisors sent to train the south vietnamese…

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20-03-2003 7:52pm

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The Gopher

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Yet again the USA has declared something that the rest of us call war but that they call military action.Since world war 2 the USA has not officially made a declaration of war-Korea was done under the guise of UN peacekeeping,Vietnam started in the early 1960s when teams of advisors sent to train the south vietnamese became a full army of troops,Ksovo was a humanitarian mission etc etc.
Do they do thi so that they can flout the rules regarding POWs like they have done in Afghanistan with the rather dubious naming of unlawful combatants?
Read this for more
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/20/1047749879550.html

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#2 20-03-2003 10:53pm
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an imperialis power is involved, people are dying, there is a vast amount of propagandist Bollocks coming from the Sun et al. It is a real war.

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