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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (602843)	8/12/2004 2:32:53 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Can Kerry by a proud war hero or angry antiwar protester? How about both? The experiences in Vietnam, where he performed bravely, obviously changed him. He came back, and because an antiwar protester, because of his experiences. I don't know what 'widespread' means as far as war atrocities. One is too many, because of the need for America to maintain our moral high ground (this is why Abu Ghraib is so damaging). If the number of incidents reported here is accurate, it is too many, especially if we were trying to 'win the hearts and minds'. I believe that the number is vastly underreported, because that's not the type of thing that soldiers want to report. On the other hand, it wasn't everyone, obviously. Some of the participants may not be aware as to the definition of a war crime or atrocity. Firing into a civilian area, without good cause, may be a war crime or atrocity. However, jittery soldiers who have seen buddies die will naturally react, in violent and sometimes mistaken ways. To the family of the child killed by errant fire, be it in the jungles of Vietnam or on a street in Baghdad, it is an atrocity. The only real way to avoid the potential for atrocity is to not put our troops into a situation like this. We need to extract ourselves from the misadventure in Iraq, and get our soldiers out of this no-win situation.