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WatchWhatISay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:54 PM
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11. Sorry, but joining the military doesn't absolve one
of the responsibility to be a decent human being. I doensn't give one the right to kill women and children for no reason, or even men of military age for that matter. I have heard some say that this is what happens as a result of the frustration of war. As if that excuses it. If that is so, then they make a solid argument against any war, ever. Isn't this sort of behavior what we went over there to get rid of (when Saddam did it).

You can't train people to be killers, and then just expect them to stop on cue.

And to say that we don't have all the facts - maybe not, but the picture is getting pretty clear.
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