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In many of the cases I know the hatred is justified, the anti-US actions where people are killed are however unjustifiable. The fact that they intend to kill us as much as people who blow themselves up to do so is reason enough in my mind to crush them first.
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How can our killing of them be justified while their killing of us is not? How can you talk of justification for murder when we have DECLARED WAR on these people. How can we can blame their civilians for us killing their civilians and then get all uppity when they take out our soldiers? Like it or not, our soldiers are a valid military target, their civilians are not.
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Iraq did have WMD, we know it used to have a lot of it. Now it is gone, he didn't dispose of it, otherwise he would have showed us and avoided getting whomped by the US military. So he either hid it, or gave it away. Both are real bad since one puts it in some nuts hands to use at his discretion, or he intends to keep it and weapons like that in such quantity sure as hell aren't negotiating chips.
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It depends on who you are listening to.
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/030918/3/14jzo.html
"Blix attacks 'spin and hype' of Iraq weapons claims"
No offense, but i trust Hans Blix more than i trust you.
Here's an update:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/030919/3/14mkv.html
U.S. troops fire at Italian diplomat's car in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - American troops opened fire on a car carrying an Italian diplomat who holds a senior position in Iraq's U.S.-led administration, killing his Iraqi interpreter, American military sources said on Friday.
Pietro Cordone, senior adviser on culture for the U.S.-led authority, was unhurt in Thursday's shooting, Italian Foreign Ministry sources said. Cordone has been leading efforts to recover priceless antiquities looted from museums and archaeological sites since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The U.S. military sources said Cordone's car was shot at after it repeatedly tried to overtake a U.S. convoy near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown.
Soldiers repeatedly warned the car not to overtake, the sources said, and opened fire when they thought the vehicle was trying to ram them.
Many Iraqis accuse U.S. troops of being too quick to open fire and failing to follow rules of engagement.
Human rights groups say many innocent Iraqis have been killed. The United States says it keeps no figures on civilian casualties.
Last week, the U.S. Army apologised after soldiers in the tense town of Falluja killed 10 Iraqi security guards and a Jordanian in a gun battle that was later described as an accident.
Locals in Falluja say U.S. troops there also killed a teenager on Wednesday night when they opened fire after hearing celebratory gunshots from a wedding, mistakenly believing they were under attack.
Last month, a U.S. soldier shot dead award-winning Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said the soldier mistook Dana's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
This is happening way too much.