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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: miraje who wrote (60292)12/13/2005 5:46:43 PM
From: Lazarus_Long   of 173976
 
Initiating violence is thoroughly immoral and repugnant.
So that means when General Eisenhower gave the GO! for D-Day, he was acting immorally?
Hmmmmm.....

War and that enemy fighter: In DP cases, you're not SPECULATING as to whether the perp will kill. He already has and has been legally judged and sentenced.

I'm having a problem seeing a difference between a soldier hunting other soldiers and a gang memeber hunting other gang members. By your standards, BOTH are initiating violence and are guilty of murder. Your argument falls of itself.

Civilized nations seek to minimize the extent of them and do not kill captured enemy combatants.
Well, then, my friend, we are not civilized, Just ask the liberals on this thread.

do not kill captured enemy combatants
You wouldn't care to bet American soldiers have not killed POWs, would you?

Executions sanctioned and carried out by the state, no matter how you want to guild the lily, are simply cold blooded killings, no matter how emotionally gratifying they may be to many people.
If the state kills only killers? It's not like that soldier or gang member shooting some wearing the wrong color cloth. There is a legal procedure that must be followed.

Again, the state already has far too much power. I strongly oppose giving the state the power to kill.
You already did when you said it could wage war?

What of Iraq? When did Iraq bomb Pearl Harbor? Is the US Army justified in being there or simply committing murder?
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