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To: quehubo who wrote (88940)	4/1/2003 7:50:55 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi quehubo; Re: "Well we have plenty of armchair quarterbacks who never quick to judge the 19 year olds engaged in a war with guerrillas and women and children being forced into the line of fire." My only judgement of our soldiers is that they are doing a damn fine job given the stupid decision that our leaders made. What your post is trying to do is to generalize from "support the troops" to "support George Bush's war". Re: "So perhaps the people in this van were totally panicked and completely ignorant of what was going on, but I would be not be surprised if they intentionally ran into the post." I'm sure that those 10 civilians would have eventually been killed by Saddam anyway. From what I understand, if you run a red light in Baghdad the Baath party officials shoot up your vehicle with 25mm cannon rounds. No, the deaths in this war are on our hands not because of the inevitable mistakes that our soldiers make, but instead because this was an "optional" (i.e. preemptive) war. What did it preempt? The conversion of a billion Moslems into American hating machines? Some success. -- Carl

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