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Doesn't sound too different from Saddam's regime.
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No matter how much I dislike the current administration, and no matter how against the war I am, statements like these are ludicrous. Yes, the soldiers who ordered the civilians into the river were acting out of line they were still saving their own asses. Who's to say those civilians didn't have guns or bombs strapped to them? I think that if it were to come down to "Iraq Civilian Suicide Bombs US Camp After Guards Let Them Go" the loss would be greater than one civilian life. Self-preservation on the part of the soldiers is by no means similar to Saddam's regime of burning people's eyes out with acid or chopping off their limbs because they own a telephone or something. It was one incident, one civilian life lost, and the sergeant making the orders is being prosecuted for it...isn't that how things work?