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Murder is murder... the point is the Iraqi mob wouldnt have killed any American's if you hadnt occupied their country, bombed their infrastructure into the middle ages, and killed 1000's of civilians.
The death of 4 people is easier to be outraged about than the death of 1000's, because its easier to conceive of I guess.
It doesnt make me happy to see anyone killed, or to see people tear apart the corpses of the dead in a rage, but this is the situation America (and the UK) has created... you cannot attack and beat and torment a people and forever expect them to be docile and weak.
I am sure the Americans will carry out many murders to avenge these deaths, the general interviewed in the linked article basically promised that... so this will just create more loss of life, maybe some of the people the Americans kill will be guilty, some will surely be innocent. War = death, and ugly death, the people of Iraq are being ground into nothing - you bomb their infrastructure and leave them half starving them bring them some food and expect them to thank you?
Honestly, I dont feel any happiness to see American soldiers and mercenaries killed - the death of every casualty of war saddens me... but when you invade a country, when you are a part of an occupying force, enforcing your will on Iraq by violence... you have to expect people will fight back.
I dont think any sane person enjoys this sort of spectacle, whether it is Mussilini hung up froma meat hook, or American mercanaries hanged from a bridge, but as long as the war goes on this wont stop... there will always be patriotic and religious Iraqi's that will resist the pagan American forces who are stealing their country from them.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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