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Originally posted by smooth
The most current example of our use of non-military targets as cannon fodder:
"...US commanders have at times adopted Machiavellian tactics. North of Tikrit in Bayji, they set up a new police headquarters next to a US civil-military center. "Now if [guerrillas] shoot RPGs [rocket-propelled-grenades] at us at night, Iraqis are in the line of fire, so they have a great incentive to go out and find these guys," said one Army officer."
--http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0924/p01s02-woiq.html
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So we are aiming at killing innocent people? It doesn't add up to the same thing. We are not shooting RPG's at guerillas, they are shooting them at us. Should we just let them hit us instead, would that make us the good guys? 
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