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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: American Spirit who wrote (73827)2/26/2006 3:53:26 PM
From: ChinuSFORead Replies (1) of 81568
 
AS, I am sure you will agree that Bush sees things in a very simplistic, childish way. Such as approach is the reason for him and his faithfuls who hasten to brand us as non-patriotic when we say that the US military is killing innocents.

No military is trained to maintain law and order in the midst of civilian population. They are trained to "shoot to kill."

So when troops are stationed amongst the civilian population in Baghdad, they will set off a barrage of bullets on the slightest provocation. Nothing wrong with that since they are trained that way. For them to do so is good since every enemy personnel in the battlefield has a gun. But not so in the case of Baghdad or any other civilian centers of population.

In the past we have had UN peace keeping forces who were minimally armed, enough to protect themselves. They were not that heavily armed like the US troops are in the streets of Baghdad.

With the present situation in Baghdad, the ordering of troops onto the streets of Baghdad by Bush, makes them appear like butchers after they unleash a barrage of heavy duty bullets from a few instigators. The instigators, I am sure get away, and it is the innocents who are killed.

I am for the US military to get out of there and turning over Iraq to a UN peace keeping force. Doing so would hasted the stability of Iraq, IMHO.
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