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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (281647)3/25/2006 4:04:40 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576815
 
Brandon Powell's situation is tragic but it doesn't say anything about the conflict in Iraq except for those that would argue that any conflict that results in any severe injury or death is automatically a mistake.

No, that's not what it says. Any unnecessary conflict that results in serious injury or death is an abomination. And Powell's injury is beyond tragic.......its the censoring and restriction of one's life in the most horrific of ways.

In almost every military conflict, even very tiny ones someone gets hurt badly or killed.

That's why you don't go to war unless absolutely necessary.

If the Iraq invasion was the best and most appropriate use of force in the history of mankind you would be able to point out someone in Powell's situation, and if it was the worst mistake ever made with our military you would also be able to find such examples. Pointing them out doesn't address the overall issue one way or the other.

That's because human life is ancillary to you. Your obsessive addiction to logic reduces human life to the level of just another component. Fighting a war requires planning, planes, weaponry AND humans.....nothing more, nothing less. I can understand how you and Bush see this war as just another exercise in administration..........albeit an unpleasant one. It doesn't bother him in the least that people are dying.....but he knows that there are others who are 'weak'; that value life beyond the level of a component or artifact......hence, his edict to keep coffins out of sight. Of course, there will be a price to be paid for this transgression......
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