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To: skinowski who wrote (90170)	4/5/2003 8:55:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<If some American soldier casually shot an innocent woman or child <<How many NZ soldiers would be capable of such an act?>>> I'd say a slightly lower proportion than American soldiers, who seem remarkably trigger happy. The USA is a wacko gun-crazy shoot 'em up culture - you can find guns in a LOT of houses and even glove boxes of cars on urban streets. The death rate from gunshots is the world champion, by an order of magnitude. There have been some reports of women being shot in Iraq. Not to mention a whole load of innocents when the driver of the loaded up jeep didn't stop. Most British have been killed by American firing. The point is that the British and American troops are responsible for what they do. Saddam has zero control over the British and American decisions. Ask Donald Rumsfeld how much Saddam decides what they do if you don't believe me. I'm not splitting hair. People are sometimes implicated in crime and sometimes not. Blaming it all on one person is silly. What lead to war was a complex array of events. Not just Saddam and his decisions. Okay, I used an extreme example to prove the point. But you can go for a much less extreme example and still see that Saddam isn't controlling the weaponry on the coalition side. That's laughable. Blaming him for anything the coalition does is absurd. That's like blaming Hiroshima's nuking on the attack on Pearl Harbour. That's silly. The Japanese had NO idea at all that the USA would have nukes and would nuke their cities a few years later. That was totally an American decision. American conscience about fried alive children can't be shifted to those who decided to bomb Pearl Harbour. The USA powers-that-were decided it was better for them to nuke cities than to battle it out person to person. It was fully their decision. Charging Hirohito with nuking Hiroshima would be absurd. Real Alice in Wonderland stuff. People have their own brains. They are not Mindless Zombies, though many claim to be, especially when they don't want to take responsibility for what they have done. Subject 53236 They consider the events surrounding them and decide to take some action. That decision is theirs. Saddam has got enough to be going on with; there's no need to load everything on to him. Mqurice