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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (151936)11/18/2004 3:44:54 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Do you think you could, this one time, actually mirror image the video and imagine how you'd feel if it had been one of ours that took the bullet in the head under the same circumstances? I'd like to know how you'd have felt. "

I would be have been pissed off as I am sure the families of iraqi insurgents must be. In a perfect world, that guy would have been arrested and carted off to the hospital yesterday. How would you feel if you were the iraqi husband of the head of CARE or the countless others who have been beheaded and disembowled by this gang OR who had shot that marine in the face the day before or boobytrapped the bodies of other wounded to take down our soldiers? Dont be so sanctimonious Ed. I know the odds are that marine in that particular circumstance probably should have not pulled the trigger but as the poster you referenced said:
" I've seen the video on that killing and I feel really, really bad for the soldier that fired the round. In many ways it seems unfair to put people in situations that many, maybe most, of us would be unable to handle properly, and then to place blame on them for their human failings. I feel that way regardless of whether he knew the guy was unarmed, seriously wounded and was no threat. I say that because the fighting they've been doing is the kind of combat fighting that builds fear, anger and the drive to kill until many cannot control the on-off button in their decisions to kill those who pose, or have posed, a threat." mike
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