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Originally posted by Bring_Back_Shantz+Sep 3 2004, 07:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Bring_Back_Shantz @ Sep 3 2004, 07:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-fotze@Sep 3 2004, 07:49 AM
Is it me or could Russia ###### up a bake sale.
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Yeah, it didn't turn out so good, but what the hell were they supposed to do? Give in to the demands?
Sure, you storm into a school where terrorists are holding people hostage and regretably people will die. But you give in to their demands and you open the door for more terrorists to do the same things. Sometimes you have to be a hardliner and accept that some people are going to die. It sucks, but it is sure better than the alternative. [/b][/quote]
According to the CBC report, this wasn't a planned assault. The some children tried to escape, and the terrorists opened fire on them, all this while the soldiers were trying to retrieve the bodies lying infront of the school. Once the militants were firing on children outside of the school, storming the school was probably the only solution. Who knows if that's true, or if that's the Russian government's justification. I don't know, I assume we'll get more details.