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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (128050)4/1/2004 10:40:29 AM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"And by damn, without resorting to full-scale collective punishment, the people in that city will need to realize that they will not receive nearly the benefits that other cooperating Iraqis receive.. And they might a club up side the head instead."

There are 500,000 people in that city. Short of nuking them, there's not much we can do.

Which is why we were reluctant to send troops in yesterday.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (128050)4/1/2004 10:53:12 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<Iraq was a decisive victory. Saddam's regime was removed within weeks...> Was it? Many hundreds of dead young Americans might not agree with you if they were alive to reply to your comment. What kind of "victory" was achieved? Is there peace in the middle east? Is the United States safer against WMD? Has terrorism been uprooted and destroyed? Have our children stopped dying in Iraq?


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