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To: michael97123 who wrote (157745)	2/4/2005 11:35:32 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Mike, re: But it would be naive to think that our soldiers are not delighted every time they kill one of the terrorists/insurgents who is shooting at them. It would be terribly naive to think they were delighted. You've been watching too many Hollywood movies or listening to too many gung ho Bush speeches. No matter what your politics the right emotion is not "delighted." A better choice would be "soul sick." Ed

To: michael97123 who wrote (157745)	2/4/2005 12:09:43 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<naive to think that our soldiers are not delighted every time they kill> I think you are seriously mistaken. Americans are not inherently bad nor good -- we have people who span the range from one end to the other of that spectrum. When something bad is done, we judge them accordingly and do not say "that could not have been bad because it was done by an American". The Germans who served under Hitler were inherently no more bad nor good than Americans -- what they had was a leader gone mad with power -- a leader who showed no regard for the lives of the people killed by his command. A leader who established a culture in which inhumanity was deemed to be justified by the inherent superiority of Germans and the justness of the German cause to eliminate a group of people -- a group that was vilified as the "evildoers" responsible for all of Germany's problems and used to galvanize German public support for an ever wider war. Any man who refers to shooting and killing other human beings as "fun" is far closer to what we saw with Hitler than what we hope to see with the fine Americans who serve unselfishly in our military -- and who regret every life they are forced to take.