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Originally posted by kipperfan+Sep 21 2004, 02:39 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kipperfan @ Sep 21 2004, 02:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mean Mr. Mustard@Sep 21 2004, 02:28 AM
Albert I would state that there is a much different thing between people who are collateral dammage or die unfortunantly and people who are murdered by having their heads chopped off. It seems to me as though that is a huge difference between the American Military and these terrorist groups. you may not view the invasion as a good thing but time will tell whether getting rid of Saddam was a positive for the people or a negative. I would tend to lean more towards the former than the latter.
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It may seem to YOU that way. But how it seems to YOU is irrelevant.
If you were a innicent citizen miles away from any military targets, and some foriegn military bombed your home, killed your family, with no reason other than they suspect militants may hide out their, how would you feel, it may seem diferent to you when your blood dies for no justifiable reason.
And lets say some militants do hide out in a public place or building, is it worth killing 20 innocent people to get at and murder two militants?? [/b][/quote]
There is a difference of targetting individuals and beheading them and having someone accidently die in warfare. You make the point (or at least what I was able to gather) that one death is one death no matter which way you cut it, however that isn't true in your life or in my life. If somoene close to you dies in a car accident is the individual who was behind the wheel of the other car at the same level as someone who kidnaps and beheads someone close to you. Would you feel the same?
They are completely different. Accidental deaths have a place in warfare whether one likes to admit it or not. Kidnapping civilians, showing them on the internet, making demands for something, when this doesn't happen (and it is a good thing that it doesn't) they chop the civilians heads off and put the video on the internet which does two things, shows they mean business, and helps to enlist people to join their cause.