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Originally posted by smooth
We weren't particularly worried about Hussein's wife, children, or anyone else who might have been in that complex we "beheaded." We had already convinced ourselves (collectively) that the whole lot of them were evil.
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i don't know how else to say this... you're wrong.
i've never heard anyone say anything like that. when was the last time you heard someone say they'd love to just drop a freakin bunker buster bomb on saddam's wife? even if you could find an individual who would say that, you're a good 200 million short from making any collective argument. how many times must our leaders make it abundantly clear that the war was against the regime, not the people? how many leaflets must be dropped detailing how best to avoid the action? how many soldiers must be picked off from the minarets of mosques we refuse to level at our own peril? there were civilian casualties... regrettably there were. instead of the self-loathing... why not blame the cowards who hide ammunition depots in hospitals or hide machine gun nests in schools?
it's frustrating when arguments are built on premises that are blatantly false. as soon as you find enough people that desparately need to agree with it... the accusations spiral uncontrollably.