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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] [QUOTE] The diffrence is that while some civillians have been killed in batles between US forces and insurgents, the US forces are not going out there targeting civillians to cause fear: the insurgents are killing anyone who's death they feel furthers their cause. Recently that's their own civillian countrymen...y'know, the ones they're supposedly thrying to "liberate" from the great western occupying forces? [/QUOTE]Well yes but that's exactly the same thing all those other charming anti-imperialist movements used to do. You know, the ones the US was/is so very fond of. I don't like or support these people any more than anyone else. To be frank I wish they had that same belief in their invulnerability to bullets as the Mahdists in the Sudan did. [QUOTE] The US forces have gone out of their way to avoid civillian casualties wherever possible while the insurgents are far more indiscriminate. [/QUOTE]To be fair, the US forces have got slightly better at avoiding this sort of thing as the conflict has gone on, but in the early part of the war there were complaints from other Coalition armed forces about the lack of fire control demonstrated by the US armed forces on the ground. What I object to is the branding of all those who oppose the Coalition/ the new Iraqi government as terrorists [i]and the apparent use of this to justify any sort of behaviour toward them.[/i] We shouldn't sink to their level. All this posturing and bleating about how they're all going to be killed is unnecessary. At least the US appears to be showing a slightly more responsible attitude towards Iraq than Afganistan. Unfortunately I don't think that'll last with the 'get out as soon as we can' attitude. If your're going to fight wars for 'regime change' (which is basically liberal imperialism) then the US needs to accept that it's going to cost time and money to effect that in a way that leads to long term stability. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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