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Eric  7
03-21-2003 02:32 PM ET (US)

Obviously when you drop hundreds of 1000 pound bombs in an urban area, civilians are killed.
Wake up and smell the coffee. WE ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE RIGHT NOW.


The facts speak for themselves. Virtually NO civilian casualties thus far, at least as reported by reputable independent sources. You are correct that there will no doubt be some innocent civilian casualties. Would you like some cheese with that whine?? Grow up and join the real world. By that logic, no war should ever be fought, in which case enjoy your free speech rights while you can because there are plenty of forces in the world that would be quite happy to take full advantage of such pacifistic naivete. Wasn't avoiding war at all costs what PM "Peace in our time" Chamberlain tried to do? We know how well that worked out.
  

However, since our government supplied Saddam with weapons and even Anthrax, when he was fighting Iran, pretending this conflict is some kind of humanitarian effort is at best ignorant and at worst blatently false.


We supplied Saddam with ANTHRAX??? Look, when you decide to enter the real world and discuss facts, rather than absurd hallucinations, please come back. (And for those keeping track of truth... The FRENCH were the ones that happily sold Saddam all the equipment he needed to develop his bioweapons program.)

Oh, and nobody is pretending this is a humanitarian effort. The primary objective is to remove the threat of WMD. The hoped-for democratization of Iraq is icing on the cake.

As for the Kuwaiti gov't... I don't recall ANY historical precedent for ousting and replacing the gov't of the nation you're defending. But you are correct that the US (and every other major power throughout history) has had to hold its nose and use some distasteful proxies in the past. It would be just wonderful if we could insist on using our Constitution as the benchmark of our foreign policy. I know from talking with folks from various nations that that, in fact, is what much of the world would like for us to do -- we would instantly regain a great deal of lost respect. But you must lead a very sheltered life if you've never had to choose between "bad" and "worse" with no other choices available.
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