From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 00:23:23 MDT
At 11:01 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Spike wrote:
>With all
>those embedded reporters, there is almost no battle footage.
>The whole episode was fiction, there was no war. Clearly
>the winner: humanity. Technology has made war almost
>bloodless.
Oh dear oh dear. Spike, you must have been watching different news programs
than the ones available in Australia. No battle footage, but plenty of
horrible pictures of numb amputated children with no footage and in one
case at least no armage either.
I'm not denying that sometimes you can't make an oily omelette without
breaking legs. But those poor little chickies weren't bloodless, fuck no.
Damien Broderick
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