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Originally posted by CRH911S
The killing of non-combatants is the necessary by-product of any war. The intentional killing of con-combatants isn't an alien concept. It didn't work during the Vietnam war and isn't working in Iraq. To blame it on the soldiers fighting a war is well, narrow minded.
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This is really well put, and this is also how I think. I don't blame "the soldiers", although obviously one might occasionally blame "that" soldier (singling one out).
My overall issue is reasonably simple - war should be a last resort and should be undertaken with great care. My memory is easily long enough to think about the lead up to invading Iraq and the tenousness (is that a word?) of the case for the invasion.
The detail of the bad stuff that has occurred since is not something I could have predicted, but that bad stuff (I'm talking about the insurgency, civilian deaths, etc etc) has happened is.
Iraq isn't, and never was, a valid response to 9/11. Iraq also didn't turn out to have ANY WMD, rather than what many believed (that it wasn't a threat). Since both of these were foreseeable, the war and "peace" in Iraq is fair and legitimate grounds for criticism.