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Originally posted by Superbelt
I don't think any of us are really berrating the military for protecting themselves. What we are worried about is what the average Iraqi will do with the information that the mosque was fired on.
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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
My take on it:
- Our forces have the right to defend themselves
- Attacking a mosque when trying to take out a religious fanatic and cut his support is idiotic. I can't think of a worse strategy that we could have used. Sadr had 10,000 supporters yesterday, I bet he has 50,000 today.
We'll see how this all shakes out, but bombing a mosque in this situation, no matter what was happening on the ground, seems like a really bad strategy.
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My thoughts exactly. Very well said.
We are not attacking the government of the US, or even the war itself. We are just questionning this specific act which is getting MASSIVE worldwide attention which will most certainly come back to haunt us.