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Thread #92202   Message #1761135
Posted By: CarolC
16-Jun-06 - 12:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Winning Friends in Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Winning Friends in Iraq
Were you able to listen, Ron? Since posting the link, I haven't been able to get into the CAIR website.

I did hear it, and I think it's very unfortunate that our Marines have been trained to have such a callous disregard for the humanity of the people they say they are over there to help.

I think it's unfortunate for at least two reasons... the first being that that such disregard for humanity is probably one of the biggest reasons the US military is failing so miserably in accomplishing its stated goals in Iraq. The other reason being that this attitude is probably directly responsible for the deaths of many US servicemen and women (by virtue of the backlash it creates among Iraqis against the US military). And all of that is quite apart from the tragedy of the large number of Iraqi civilian deaths.