Reply #83: Point taken

[Danger Duck]

I'm not saying that the insurgents, rebels, freedom fighters don't have a right to defend themselves. Of course they do, it's a war. But we have a right to defend ourselves against those that take up arms, regardless of whether or not the war was unfounded. If you think that our troops who don't refuse to fight deserve to die, I'll respectively disagree with you.

My hope is that we can stabilize the region, and get out of there. That won't happen when we have strongholds like Falluja providing a safe have for those that behead and bomb our soldiers and citizens, especially in non-combat situations.

Of course, when the Nazi army forced over 14,000 Polish people to dig a trench, lined them up, shot them in the back of the head, and watched them roll into their ready made "grave", that was a war crime. When they went door to door executing civilians, that was a war crime.