Reply #3: We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here

[libodem]

MY ASS. What a God-Awful nightmare of carnage. And the secret places where Iraqis are kidnapped and tortured. That story of the young boy with the captives who had the 'thinest little arms the liberator had ever seen', the hand cuffs wouldn't fit his wrists. How nice to be saved and put into handcuffs. God, finding numerous dead bodies scattered around the city. It's heinous. And because it's commonplace now, no one seems to get very up about it. Business as usual. At least it's not our city. What if it was? Would anyone get up about that? Any one care if it were Boston, St. Paul, Tampa? It would be a flag half massed occasion. Would it not? I thought that once we admitted that Iraq is a Civil War we would get the hell out. Now our troops are targets caught in the cross fire. And the slaughter of civilians in their own country is appalling. But it's OK because it is not our country or our white middle class Americans. It cheapens the value of all life. How can any one care about a 5mm fetus being aborted compared to this mass destruction of human life because of our occupation? What made Terry Shinlder's abandoned shell of a body a national debate. We are contributing to wanton destruction of innocent life by our very occupation. How much worse could it be if we left and just got our soldiers out of the line of fire. Would incidents like what the OP describes then be our fault? Would we be more or less to blame? Is it not our fault when 44 bodies are scattered through the city because being cannon fodder absolves us of responsibility? I don't get it someone explain it to me.