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Pete Stark: This is Terrorism
"I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of
Baghdad in the first several days of the war . . . to me, if those
were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call
that an act of extreme terrorism," said Stark, a Democrat from
Fremont.



Stark, a peace activist in the 1960s and a 30-year veteran in
Congress, is known for his sharp and sometimes careless
tongue. He told the Oakland Tribune Monday that if the
president initiates the war, "it's blood on Bush's hands."

His latest criticism is based on published reports that U.S.
forces plan to fire as many as 3,000 laser- and
satellite-guided missiles on Iraq in the first days of a military
campaign.

"You can't send in 3,000 bombs without some of them going
awry, in spite of the military's claims about accuracy," Stark
said in an interview Tuesday with The Chronicle. "If they get
two-thirds accuracy that means that 1,000 bombs will explode
(off target) inside a city of 6 million people. To me, that's a
terrorist act."