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Originally posted by BlueMan
. Tecoyah, you may notice, displays no such (apparent) thought process, to all appearances automatically assuming that our forces -must- have shot/blown up/burned that poor kid/woman/guy, and launching into "Y'see, this is why people hate us." .
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The assumptions here, are unfortunately yours. Perhaps my wording was misleading(not to myself) but my post was an attempt to express the reasoning I would find for retribution, should my child suffer such a fate. For you to imply that I was blaming U.S. forces directly for these deaths, shows an obvious misunderstanding of the content.
The United States is certainly forced to bear some responsibility for the death in Iraq at this point, we started a war. Our soldiers are doing the job we require them to do, and while they have surely had incidence of civilian casualties, that is not likely the norm. Had you comprehended the depth of my comments, you would have (I hope) understood the perspective given was meant to be from the Iraqi side of this conflict. And what the parents of a dead or wounded child will likely feel. My "knee jerk" reaction was a personal rendering of the Hypothetical. This has no bearing whatsoever on the accountability of U.S forces.