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To: Brumar89 who wrote (91119)	12/13/2004 1:32:35 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't think you could call Saddam's sons civilians, really. And it is true that civilians are dying at the hands of the insurgents, as well as at the hands of the U.S. military. What is usually missing from the logic of the pro-war contingent, though, is that we invaded another country and are dropping huge bombs on houses, hospitals, whatever! You can try to make the case murky because some of the insurgents have acted horribly. But it's a what came first, the chicken or the egg kind of thing. All the things your side mentions to justify the Americans invading Iraq, like beheadings and insurgent uprisings for example, have only happened AFTER the invasion of Iraq by the U.S., as the RESULT of the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. Iraq was not full of insurgents and people being kidnapped and beheaded until we very rudely invaded and George Bush said "bring it on!" And it is also irrelevant that Saddam was an evil dictator--the world is absolutely full up with those and we don't invade those countries whenever we feel like it. We invaded Iraq because Bush was avenging Saddam's attempt on his daddy's life, and because it was in the strategic interests of the Republican administration to do so. So listing some bad guys in a post to obliterate the fact that TOTALLY innocent Iraqi families are dying in horrible ways at the hands of Americans just is not an effective argument.