Reply #114: You didn't read my post...

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I clearly said NOT Iraq and Afghanistan combat related military deaths. Where is the disconnect here? I don't understand what you're saying. Are you agreeing with my post in a convoluted way or are you just dense?

"They have a perfectly good reason to fight."

I've seen that ignorant crap echoed here often, and I always get pissed off. Is killing Shiites/Sunnis because they are slightly different Muslims a "good reason"? Are foreign born terrorists blowing up crowded market places and killing politicians and police officers freedom fighters? Is imposing a radical Islamic caliphate government, and cleansing the country of infidels a noble aim? How progressive of you. :puke:

At this point we're basically a peacekeeping force there at the request of the Iraqi government, who was legitimately elected by the people of Iraq. The U.S., Iraqi army and police are basically trying to keep the peace between warring religious factions and to drive out foreign born terrorists, who EVERYBODY, including the Iraqi people, despise.

Would native Sudanese have the right to kill U.N. troops in their country if they came in to stop the genocide? Did the Somalis have the right to kill UN/American troops who were there to stop a humanitarian crisis?

And while the actions of the Iraq insurgency are at least (somewhat, sorta) debatable, defending the actions of the Taliban, by saying they have a "perfectly good reason to fight" is vile and disgusting. And ignorant.