Dropping bombs on cities is just a shitty, cowardly way to make war.

[Philosoraptor]

I mean, look at the good ol' days when war meant confronting your enemy on the battlefield head on, swords, spears, guns even, but dropping bombs on cities and killing thousands of innocents? We hold the record for that for over half a century.

Its just a rotten and cowardly way to have a war, all the children, and mothers and old folks and citizens who had no blame whatsoever, lobbing bombs and missiles on them from the sky, from a jet or by simply pushing a button or mouse.

Have some meetings, sign some documents, send out some orders, light the fuses and send the rockets, all very impersonal, all very clinical, never seeing their faces as they die, never having to see their suffering, reduced to mere numbers.

I don't care who does it, its just a shitty and low down way of doing it. Instead of finding the actual enemy, you just drop bombs all over the place killing everyone and then justifying it by expressing regret that civilians had to die.

I don't know, I guess I'm still pissed about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[OneBlueSky]

1. well said . . . I agree 100% . . . n/t

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[Selatius]

2. Didn't Saddam float the idea of an old-fashioned gun duel with Bush Jr.???

I think we could've been spared 2500+ dead Americans and 100,000+ dead Iraqi civilians if Bush had taken up Saddam on his offer.

[datasuspect]

6. that would have been so cool

they could have had it on pay per view.

hussein dressed as a general, georgie in a cowboy costume.

i think a texas cage match would be even better.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. So is hiding behind civilians.

[Warpy]

4. Don't forget what castles were used for

The local population took refuge in castles and in walled cities. Armies would lay siege to them, burning the surrounding fields after stripping what they could from them, starving the occupants of the castle or city. There would be repeated attacks, and attempts to destroy everything within with flame tipped arrows.

War has always been hellish for a trapped population.

One wonders why war is so beloved and why men rush to fight them.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. No excuse -- NONE for this extreme violence

It's like the leadership of Israel has gone bat shit insane -- berserk --

I've just looked at photos of the city -- in rubble and the broken bodies of civilians in the hospital.

Israel had better pull together and get rid of their rotten to the core leaders -- because their leadership hurting human beings -- just like the Israelis are human beings.

There is no excuse for this . . .

The Israel & US leadership is guilty of war crimes -- crimes against humanity. They should be on the next plane to the Hague -- where they can be tried for war crimes. O.K. make room for the bush gang -- they are so many they will need their very own plane -- perhaps the Hague will need to build a whole new prison to hold all the war criminals.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. And the leader of Hizb'allah?

[magellan]

8. Nasrallah has no moral compass

He doesn't value human life.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Oh I agree!

Sad that some here think he is a "hero!"

[magellan]

10. Some of the things he's done for his followers are good

But he is no hero, not to my mind. No one who can avoid murdering innocent civilians but doesn't could ever be honestly described as a hero, no matter what good he or she has done elsewhere. That one action betrays them as undeserving of such accolades and casts doubt on the rest of their character as well.

[Henny Penny]

11. Unlike the Israelis!

:sarcasm: