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Thread #69284   Message #1181886
Posted By: Amos
09-May-04 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
There are better ways to free people than by shooting their colleagues, torturing their husbands or fathers, invading their cities and disrupting their homes.

It is unfortunate that given the premise that invasion was right, a lot of these other practices would ensure by necessity. That's the nature of war. The point is that war was a LOUSY solution to the problem of Iraq and a STUPID remedy to resort to short of ultimate necessity. I don't care how jaded some people have gotten to it, or calloused by their own participation, or whatever. The objective point is still very much that unilaterally invading is as wrong-headed a diplomatic move as it is possible to make.

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