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debbierlus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:38 PM
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11. ALL IRAQI CIVILLAIN DEATHES UNJUSTIFIED - Which ones were justified?
The yahoo headline: Iraq civilian deathes unjustified. Yes, very true. So, weren't EVERY OTHER SINGLE ONE.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/iraq

First, I believe this is heinous and deserves to be seriously punished. It is a horror.

However, this whole god damn war is a horror and tens upon tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children have been murdered. Yes. Murdered. We lied to go in and bomb their nation. We had NO right to do that - This whole thing is a senseless blood bath.

Every single Iraqi who has been killed in this war has been murdered. Who were we to kill any on them?

This is sharp ledge on the slippery slope. People will get all horrified about this, yet think the other hundred plus thousand are just 'collateral damage'. The sheer arrogance of any human being to think they have the right to destroy another person's life on a suspicion of possible future danger to them.

This is where it becomes difficult to support the troops. The majority of Americans do NOT care a rat's ass about the troops. How can they say such a thing when they would allow them to be put in these circumstances to begin with? The sad tragedy is that most people STILL would have been fine with this war, if it had been quick or cheap. But, it never would have been right under any circumstance.

This is a mess. Our soldiers become monsters in these circumstances. And, to punish the soldiers without holding the people who ordered this lunacy accountable is hollow and meaningless. The headline was
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