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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
to be perfectly honest... i'm really not as concerned about iraqi death counts. this is to to the reality that you can never have a realistic picture of what those figures mean. what constitutes an innocent civilian casualty? from the perspective of the soldier on the ground... they're all civilians. no uniforms, no badges, concealed weapons, shady or nonexistent chain of command.
if you're talking about innocent people caught in the cross-fire... i mourn their deaths as much as a US soldier. if you're talking about someone who straps bombs to children or picks of their fellow iraqis waiting in a bread line... i say stack'em high and stack'em deep. the more we kill of them the better.
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Bombs have no way of discriminating between civilian and military. I'm not blaming our soldiers for anything, so let's get that out of the way.
You admittedly don't know how many civilians versus insurgents have died. How many civilians does it take before you become concerned? Aren't we supposed to be the civilized ones?
Edit: if the latest justification for the war is the well-being of the Iraqi people, shouldn't we be a little concerned about how many of them die? Why else are we sacrificing our own for them? Why save someone if you aren't concerned about whether they live or die?