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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (91099)	12/11/2004 3:33:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't think people should attempt to maximize estimates of deaths for political reasons either. I recall hearing we killed one of terror leader al Zarqawi's lieutenants - would he be a civilian? I suppose so. Were Saddam's sons who died in a shootout with our troops civilian deaths? I guess they were too. The folks planting roadside bombs and kidnapping people like Margaret Hassan, I suppose they are all civilians and when we kill some of these folks, they are therefore civilian deaths. I suppose the people killed in the terror attack on buses carrying workers I read about a couple weeks ago, they certainly were civilians. Margaret Hassan certainly was a civilian death. So were the Turkish truck drivers beheaded by "insurgents". But lump them all together, call them civilian deaths and people can imply they are all innocents killed by Americans.