Paul,
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The general gist of all of your comments are that you don't believe the US should have invaded Iraq. I was responding to that in general, not your specific comments.The case is not that I
"don't believe the US should have invaded Iraq". I don't believe in the reasons the US government is presenting for doing such thing. That's pure hipocrisy!
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The idea that people beliebe our soldiers are just killing civilians as a matter of course, is just stupid.Nobody is saying this. In this very same thread I replied to Tracy (message #
772961):
"Mistakes? Those guys out there in Iraq should be better prepaired and their electronic toys better developed and tested before going to war to murder innocent civilians."And in message #
772939 I replied:
"The US troops should act as soldiers, the Iraqi civilians are victims.""Of course I don't think it was premeditated, it just shows how not psycologically prepaired some US troops are." "Of course some mad ones and some sadic ones must be found in the US troops, as well. That's part of that insane thing called war. Poor Iraqi civilians that are suffering the inferno the coallition is imposing them."I'm showing that IMHO the american soldiers seem to be prepaired just to murder people, and are not psycologically prepaired for a war. The electronic paraphernalia is serving as a excuse for those murderings (precise bombing, low casualties etc etc).
As a counterpoint, yesterday, the british troops in a gesture of friendship, took off their helmets, so people could see their eyes (and I saw compassion in ALL the eyes I'd the opportunity to watch in BBC News last night). In the eyes of the american soldiers I could see fear and astonishment, believe it or not! After believing in Rumsfeld & Co's cheap lies, they're facing a completely diferent reality in Iraq. Worse for them.
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Hmm...I wonder why the people of Iraq haven't? I guess you're right. If they haven't yet, they either don't want to (maybe they like him?) or aren't able to. Either way, we don't have any right trying to help them (directly or indirectly). Let them fend for themselves...It seems we're agreeing in this point, BUT the US government doesn't think like us...
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And we're not allowed to fix our mistakes?If that means to impose even more sacrifice to that people OR to make another "mistake" disguised under shadow excuses, NO, IMHO!
Regards,
Fernando
