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Thread #126240   Message #2804054
Posted By: CarolC
05-Jan-10 - 12:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
No Lizzie, the reason women and children are being killed is because the US and UK governments are willing to accept "collateral damage" and if they have to kill women and children in order to kill their target, they're willing to do that. So if their target is sleeping in his house and his family is sleeping there also, they will accept the deaths of the rest of the family if it means killing their target. It's also because they don't always make absolute sure that their intelligence is accurate and they sometimes fire on the wrong target because they had bad intelligence. They call that collateral damage also and they're perfectly willing to accept that.

The Afghan people don't accept the collateral damage, and they don't want US and UK troops in their country. They have a right to not want foreign troops in their country. The foreign troops, on the other hand, have no right whatever to be in their country.