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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
This is the most important thing to remember. To hell with the politics and bullshit, the fact is that innocent people are dying for nothing. Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children. It is these people that are the true heroes of any war, and they should be the ones honored, not those who were responsible for murdering them. The world, especially America needs to see the imagery of the death, perhaps the reality of this war will sway their opinion (although unlikely), and if not swaying the devoted, perhaps it will sway the undecided. Either way, things like this must be shown, the planet needs to know what's happening, not some sugar coated bullshit. Beheadings should be televised, executions should be televised, we don't live in a happy go lucky world, and we must be aware of this.
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But we have to assign blame where blame is due. Sergeant Average Joe did not order this war. Bush and his henchmen did. It's them that deserve the blame (or praise from the people who for some reason still support the war).
As to your comment about hearing every day about a new abuse.. . Well I don't hear that every day but let's say that you're right.
Every day it's easy to find a news article from somewhere in the country about a crime that's been committed by a black guy. By your logic, this means ALL black people are criminals. Let's just arrest them all.
There are 140,000 + soldiers in Iraq alone. The war's been going on for over 2 years. If you're generous then one atrocity per day works out to 2,000 soldiers IF you assume more than one soldier per day commits an atrocity. Blaming 138,000 people for the crimes of 2,000 is not fair, it's not just, and it's frankly disgusting.
Your words sound very much like the anti-government words of the crackpots here in the US who like to blow up federal buildings or send bombs to judges, yet I do not accuse you of being one of them merely because something about you resembles them.
To do so would be no different than you blaming all soldiers for the actions of a few simply because they wear similar uniforms.
The soldiers who committed these atrocities should be punnished very severely. But it is not just to also punish the ones who did not do these crimes, and instead are over there doing a job they were told to do and with which they may not agree.