Ah yes - I guess that places you pretty well.
Good. I'd hate for there to be any confusion about where I stand. (Incidentally: if you were at all curious, why didn't you just ask?)
Just as well for you that your loved ones aren't the ones being shocked and awed then?
I have a relative over there right now, and I'm very worried for him.
These are living breathing people you must realise [sic] surely?
Surely I do. And isn't it wonderfully moral, ethical, and altogether humanitarian - almost lump-in-throat producing - that unlike the enemies of this country, we don't intentionally strike civilian targets, and in fact take special pains to avoid them? Of course, accidents do occur, and nowhere is that clearer in that not only are Iraqi civilians but U.S. and coalition troops as well at serious risk of inadvertent injury or death.
In either case, it's an indisputable tragedy and most unfortunate consequence of being pushed to this position.
As for the Iraqi military, I really don't care a whit for what happens to them from the lowest Private to the highest General. So long as they wear the uniform, they are - by choice or convention - an instrument of the their state, and should be dealt with accordingly. Many are surrendering now. All - or a staggeringly gross majority - knew in the weeks before that this was coming. To not surrender is to make a personal choice; not so much one to live with, as it might be said, as one to die by.
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