NODE 936e9059RE: "They've started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
"Harvey Rook (Exchange)" <hrook@exchange.microsoft.com>Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:21:58 +0800
The scene from Babylon 5 is hardly original. The same thing happened in
Vietnam, The Korean War, WW2, WW1....
This is war, and in war innocent people die to further the cause of the
leaders. You just have to hope and pray that some good will come out of it.
Harv.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@remailer.ch]
>
> "We just intercepted a coded transmission from Earth Force
> Command. They've
> started bombing Mars! I repeat, they're bombing Mars!"
>
> (scene of two fighters on approach to a biodome)
>
> Omega One: "Standing by. Weapons hot."
> Radio: "Don't do it! We have women and children down here!
> Don't do it!"
> Radio2: "Omega One, you are clear for drop."
>
> (weapons fly, killing a few thousand innocent men, women, and
> children.)
>
> It amazes me how much similarity Babylon 5 has to reality. Is
> Clinton a fan
> who fancies himself as President Clark? I'm starting to worry.
>