pan6467

First, I did read the article, and in my opinion blowing a wall away to a religious compound for any reason is barbaric. By blowing the wall away and knowing there were innocent lives in there is condoning their killing. In my opinion.

Do I condone the firing upon our troops? In no way shape or form and I resent anyone implying I do. I firmly believe when fired upon you fire back at those that fired (men, women, children, whomever it was), but you limit as much as possible the innocent casualties.

Blowing a wall away with 3 missiles is not limiting that.

1 missile I am sure would have sent a message.

2 missiles would have gotten the point across just fine and been overaggressive but after the first if the firing had continued acceptable.

3 missiles is overkill.

It is not showing the Iraqi or any Arab country that we mean peace and freedom. It shows we will go to extremes to make our point.

It adds fuel and more hunger to the enemy's cause and hatreds as now those who were innocent may now have been angered or the families vowing vengence against us.

We are not showing these people, (we say we are freeing from a horrendously evil dictator,) any difference between us and Saddam.

If they choose to use religious compounds to strike against us, then we do what they do. That is not fire back that is to let the press see for themselves firsthand what is happening. By doing this I guarantee you take away any sympathy and the attacks from these places stop. Because those that are innocent and those that (like myself) feel there were better ways to handle it will be able to see firsthand that we didn't fire first and we did all we could before firing back.

Also, just because I question policy or the president's motives, does not mean I hate America. IT IS MY RIGHT TO QUESTION AND NOT HAVE MY PATRIOTISM QUESTIONED. To imply or believe anything else, is not protecting freedom but stifling it and perhaps scaring, harrassing and berating others from speaking out. Noone has the right to do that to another, not in the USA.

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