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Thread #69284   Message #1179421
Posted By: Stu
06-May-04 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
"Actually, with 'enemies' I both meant the former, Saddam + regime, and the present, not the demonstrating and understandably upset Iraqis, but the groups who feed on chaos and will kill foreigners (not only soldiers) brutally and Iraqis indsicriminately with bombs made to kill as many people as possible."

Where do you draw the line with this definition though? There's now an Iraqi general in charge at Fallujah. A year ago, the Americans would be trying to kill this chap as being one of the lynchpins of a brutal dictatorship (which he was).

The problem is the upset Iraqis are now your enemies - because you made them so by shooting them with snipers and pummelling them with Cobra Gunships.

As for killing Iraqis indiscrimiately, the Americans simply cannot criticise other people for doing this after the past few weeks slaughter in Fallujah - it's this sort of arrogance that really is peeing the rest of the world off. I'm NOT saying every innocent death was a result of American fire, but many many innocent people are now dead because of it.