From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 09:17:32 MST
Michael Wiik Wrote:
> And it's not like we don't have the technology. Look at those souped-up
> M16's our troops have now. It doesn't seem like it would take much extra
> weight to add a small camera on each weapon so each kill-shot could be
> recorded for posterity. Perhaps editted into a family video for the
> widow and orphans.
>
> I think having more video would make everybody much more supportive of
> the war. It should be possible to have a little camera on each bomb or
> artillery shell. In fact, I think the U.S. should personalize each and
> every bomb, give it it's own URL and let children post messages which
> would be printed via some sort of hand-held dot-matrix printer on the
> munition as it's loaded. Combine this with the camera on the bomb
> transmitting it's last image so you could actually match up individual
> dead iraqis with the bomb that killed them. Then the kids could write
> the Iraqi widows and orphans explaning why their husbands and fathers
> had to die, and it'd all be archived for future historians.
What a bunch of terriffic ideas! Now wouldn't that be fun. Finally we would
all be happily engaged in a global war game. The American kids counting
smashed bodies and give the deadly wounded Iraqui babies a remote control
coup de grace. And finally: Computerized bombs, shells and bulletts would
give us Militant Pacifists (MP) the chance to hack into the system and
eliminate the bombs on their flight or maybe with some cool hacker tools
reverse their ballistic curve and direct them straight back to the shooters,
which I would definitely prefer besides teaching Iraqui children to write to
the widows and orphants weeping back home in "God's Own Country" and
explaining how MPs managed to turn a tool of war against the aggressor.
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