full-disclosure - Re: Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:23:58 -0500
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Re: Re: George Bush appoints a 9 year old to
	be the chairperson of the Information Security Deportment

--On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 17:34:24 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:55:09 CDT, Paul Schmehl said:
>> > 1] Hezbollah has managed to become an important presence in the
>> > Lebanese Parliament
>>
>> They just left out - by killing opposition leaders and threatening
>> others.
>
> Like your government doesn't do that too?
>
Uh....right.
>
>> > 3] It has gained support for this power by providing health care [to
>> > an unnamed population]
>>
>> Ditto.  And ask those southern Lebanese how they feel about those health
>> services now.  Hezbollah built ammo dumps under schools and hospitals.
>> Did the BBC tell you that?
>
> The case can be made that putting ammo dumps there is actually *saving*
> human life, because the Hezbollah people know we won't bomb a school.  If
> they put the dumps out where we'd be tempted to bomb them, the resulting
> explosion could easily kill and maim people for a long distance around.
>
> So it's just Hezbollah removing the temptation from us to kill everybody
> in a half-mile radius. :)
>
The case could be made that terrorists are "saving" the environment by 
thinning the herd.

I won't be the one making it though.

>> > 4] It has a tv station, which is influential [it is not stated if this
>> > is a cause or an effect]
>> >
>> They left out - a virulently anti-semitic terrorist propaganda outlet
>> that spews so much hatred that they've been banned from every Eurpopean
>> country.
>
> And our leadership didn't spew hatred in order to get the War on Terror
> going?
>
Sure thing, Valdis.  Love the moral equivalency.

> Pot, Kettle, you call the color, Paul.
>
The color?  Yellow.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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