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It is true, such atrocities are par for the course in war.
But that is all the more reason why one must bear responsibility for such things when one starts a war.
If you are going to go to war, you need to be honest and understanding about the full costs of it. Not just money, but human. If you are, and you still determine it to be worth it, then so be it. But you then should have no problem standing up and taking responsibility for your actions.
The Bush Team can't hide behind claiming it was Saddam's fault. Yes, there were plenty of things Saddam could have done better to avoid war. But there were also plenty of things Bush could have done. In the end, it was Bush that pulled the trigger.
Whether or not it was the right thing to do is another topic, but either way, he bears a certain level of responsibility for Mr. Berg's death, the death of our troops over there, and the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis.
We shouldn't be using Saddam as our moral barometer. We should be proceeding through this affair by our own compass. If we are forced to compare to Hussein, then perhaps our compass is faulty?
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"Don't tell me we're so blind we cannot see that this is my land! I can't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
And this is your land, you can't close your eyes to this hypocracy.
Yes this is my land, I won't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
'Cause this is our land, we can't close our eyes to the things we don't wanna see."
- DTH
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