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Originally posted by Tophat665
Superbelt,
You do raise a good point, and erasing Fallujah would be absolutely grossly disproportionate if this is the only problem that American troops or contractors had had with Fallujah since the "end of major hostilities". It just seems to me that this is merely the most despicable of a constant flow of objectionable events stemming from that town. I realize it is hardly scientific, but it seems that every fifth or sixth killing of an American occurrs in or around there. With that as the context, I'm not sure that destroying the town would still be a disproportionate response. I am not - cannot - say it is the right thing to do, but it sure feels right.
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Think about what you just said. That you know in your head its wrong, but in your heart it feels right to massacre a town and kill every civilian there.
Why, why, do we have this lack of understanding of why the Iraqi people do not want the American's, or the British, there?
How many more Iraqi's, what ratio would you guess at, how many more Iraqi's have been killed by the UK/US forces than American's and Britains killed in Iraq? Do you really think the lives of Western people are worth more, that it is a greater crime to take them? I just cannot understand.
Like I said, I dont take any pleasure in watching these mercenaries killed but they should not have been there. The message is clear... America has achieved its objectives, Saddam has gone, the WMD's were never there, so get out, get out of Iraq and get out now.
Oh, unless the reason Bush and Blair are there never was to topple Hussain and look for WMD... if the reason was oil... I guess THAT would make sense while we are still there.