by F.M. Luder

Created on: February 08, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

Rules of war. Now that is the pinnacle of oxymoronic statements if I have ever heard one. It's up there with fair fight. The point of war is to kill, what rules are there? Certainly at some point, way before the use of missiles, jets and bombs there were acceptable rules of war. Men met in a battlefield and hacked or shot at each other, and whichever side had the most left standing had won the battle. In this new day and age, planes simply fly over and drop hundreds of tons of weapons on cities. CITIES for God's sake, as if the people in these cities have any control whatsoever over what their leaders do.
The rule of war seems to be kill as many people as you can and drag it out as long as possible in order to pull the greatest profit for Halliburton or Exxon or whichever corporation leads congress into its next scuffle.

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