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Originally posted by Mike(dat's me)
Stuart,
I'll try reason one more time. Yes, atrocities have happened. Yes there are soldiers guilty of crimes.
Yes, this is a tiny percentage of the US military.
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Yes, these types of atrocities have been part of warfare and hostile occupation for time immemorial. They probably always will be. Just as the enemy in Iraq are "terrorists" and "insurgents" and "fanatics", but the Poles and the French and the Dutch in WW2 were "Resistance" and "Freedom Fighters".
When you unleash a military on a civilian population, atrocities, deliberate and accidental, will inevitably be visited on a civilian population. If you take a decision to use weapon knowing that there may be civilian casualties, then the resulting civilian deaths cannot be “accidents”.
This is a most excellent excellent reason to avoid starting wars, especially those which do not carry the moral imperative, or indeed are based on utterly false pretences, or “lies” as they are sometimes known.
So when we read down home, saccharine, tear jerking faux fairy tales about angelic soldiers defending the freedoms of our children in far off lands, some of us- perhaps the entire population of the world bar the half of the US population that re-elected the current cabal of god bothering lunatics- are inclined to reach for the barf bag. I wonder if there is a room full of people at the back of Pat Robinson’s glass cathedral pumping this crap into the internet. Call it for what it is – propaganda.
Stuart