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Okay. I'm not convinced that the United States decided that the best way to win the war was to bomb as many innocent people as possible. Like I said, innocent people are not the target. The objective is never to slaughter innocent people, how would that be effective in winning a war? Kill the people without weapons? Its not the best strategy. But it is often a strategy taken by terrorists. Of course we killed innocent people in Iraq, but we didn't aim our guns at innocent people simply to terrorize them. We aimed at military targets that were obviously in civilian areas, but we didn't just aim directly at civilian areas. A terrorist will walk into a shopping mall and blow himself up. Thats about as cowardly as you can get. The Kamikaze pilots of WWII I can have some respect for, they were aiming at a military installation, not a shopping mall or coffee shop. Its all semantics, you can call anybody a soldier if you want to, but for me I draw the line at when they purposefully open fire on unarmed people knowing full well that there are no military targets in sight.
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Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul
I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold.
-Son House, Death Letter Blues
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