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Originally posted by Phaenx
As long as we're agreeing that murder is the unlawful killing of one person by another, what's unlawful about killing people who are shooting at you in a battlezone?
Did I miss something or did that article say something about soldiers killing unarmed women/children on purpose for no reason?
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I'm with Phaenx and Filtherton, this isn't wholesale slaughter of civilians, this is collateral damager from war. Unfortunately, Fallujah is a hotbed of problems and I can understand the military operation there.
I do think there is some element of smackdown going on here for the desecration and murder of those four people, but for the most part this operation seems like it is under control.
War is state-sanctioned murder of the other side. It's ugly, but that's what it is.
I still don't see the end game in Iraq. As you said, the war isn't about WMD's or Saddam any more. I'm not sure what it *is* about. It doesn't seem to be about restoring freedom to the Iraqis anymore either.