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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (58514)3/1/2005 7:16:10 PM
From: one_lessRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
No one goes around shooting and causing collateral damage dipy. Some groups are declared enemies of each other and target each other. Collateral damage occures when non-targeted and unintended victims die in a fire fight. That is not murder. It is the obligation of the combatants to do everything in their power to exclude innocents from the battle zones. Targeting innocents to create an effect on your enemy is terrorism and a form of murder.

Iraq is an interesting case in point where collateral damage was common especially in the initial military actions and where terrorism committed by insurgents has been common since the success of the initial operation. The difference is as clear as the difference between night and day for any rational person.

Since American targets were publicized well in advance by the international media, collateral damage should have been minimized. It could have been minimized even more if the enemy had not engaged the innocents as shields. To complicate things further, the enemy was not uniformed so any distinction on the battle line was negligable.

Of course you already know all that but since the facts aren't useful to you, go ahead and spin it as some sort of evil conspiracy to murder innocents by the hundreds of thousands.
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