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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118617)	11/5/2003 3:12:02 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

You can't change the basic facts with tap dancing. I don't like seeing innocent people being killed by either side, whether targeted, not-targeted, or those who simply were standing around when US troops panicked and opened fire on whoever happened to be there -- and of the thousands of innocent people killed so far the vast majority have been killed by the us military. This war was and is wrong -- and I have no problem agreeing that it is wrong on both sides. For our side, it is wrong because it was unilateral, fought without legitimacy and without benefit of a large contingent of allied troops. It was fought for ideological reasons rather than in self-defense. And it was fought without benefit of professional military post-war planning. We have achieved some measure of lowest common denominator support for a UN occupation, but we are unwilling to let the UN play any meaningful role. As a result we have what we deserve -- no meaningful international support. Now we count our dead, day after day, and have to suffer endless ideological hubris.

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