14 innocent people were killed by US . 1/3/2006

[cantstandbush]

A US air attack has killed 14 members of one family in the oil-refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ADA709C4-E277-47A5-939D-DDDA2EEF0CAA.htm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. winning hearts and minds

with bombs. :cry:

[Selatius]

2. "Collateral damage"

You don't drop a 500 lb. bomb on a target inside a city and not expect shrapnel to rain down on the surrounding buildings and people. You're damned if you do. Damned if you don't. If you sent in troops instead, you'd probably lose several soldiers, so what are the options in war? Somebody is going to die regardless of what happens, but that's the nature of war.

[TahitiNut]

3. When an armed and flak-jacketed soldier's life is worth more ...

... than the lives if innocent children, men, and women, then we're morally bankrupt indeed.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. When it is an unprovoked, illegal war based on lies....

It is neither war nor "collateral damage." It is murder, and the blame lays squarely on the people giving the orders.

[madokie]

6. Just thinking here. but I would guess you are not a veteran

Correct me if I am wrong.

[Selatius]

9. No, I am not a veteran

To clarify, I was implying the best option is not to have war, but that's not something our government entertains, sadly.

[madokie]

10. Not that it really matters, I was a proud patriot before I was a veteran

We all have to remember the one's who stayed back here during VN were the one's who stopped that war. The We's were pawns then as the troops are today. No matter, we have a lot of work ahead of us. We have a war to stop and a government to reform. A full slate but we can do it.

[praxiz]

4. How many tomorrow, then? I wonder.

:(

[medeak]

7. young vet just returned from Iraq told me

It's the most complex mess you can imagine....we've made a hell in Iraq.

[Christa]

8. At least they are free

what the hell are we doing? :mad: :grr: :banghead:

[JackintheGreen]

11. But did we save the refinery?

DID WE SAVE THE PRECIOUS PRECIOUS OIL?!?

[orwell]

12. Why do you...

...hate America.

Support the troops.

Freedom is on the march.

We are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here.

Did I miss any?