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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (6692)	4/2/2003 3:25:13 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Thank you for that response. I truly mean it. Your response did not include an insult and candidly acknowledged that what underlies these posts is the fact that we disagree. And I do disagree with your statement that nothing good comes out of killing. I'd think the jews who were rescued from concentration camps in 1945 would disagree with your point, as would their children and grandchildren. Countless citizens of asian countries would disagree that good did not result from killing their Japanese occupiers. Countless Cambodians probably wish the world had cared enough to kill off the Khymer Rouge who so brutally carried on a policy of genocide against their own people. When this is done, I believe that there will be countless Iraqis who will say their lives are better without Saddam. And, finally, I think your numbers are off somewhat on the numbers of civilians who may die. You might want to read what John Leo has to say about civilian death estimates from the '91 war. At the time, estimates of some groups were as high as 300,000. That proved not to be the case. Foreign Policy magazine ultimately put the total around 1,000. usnews.com I'm not endorsing the killing of civilians. But they will die in any armed conflict. More will die than would otherwise have died because the Iraqi army insists on wearing civilian clothes and sets up operations in hospitals, schools, mosques and similar places.