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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217072)	2/9/2007 12:11:59 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Yes, you did do a good job of predicting pitfalls. Nevertheless, to put one's finger on the nub of the matter, most of the people being killed in Iraq are Iraqi civilians, just as most of the people being killed by Saddam were Iraqi civilians. Chaotic murder by vicious, psychotic insurgents is bad, and should be stopped if possible. Organized, orderly, methodical mass murder by one's own government is simply not something that can be tolerated. Can we eradicate systematic mass murder as a means of oppression anytime soon? Of course not. But the alternative, of tolerating it, doesn't work either. Both have been tried in our lifetimes, many times. I don't regret trying to stop mass murderers. I deeply regret looking the other way and saying it's not my business. It is my business, our business. It simply is. If you disagree, that's your right, but I don't think you can demonstrate that looking the other way saves more lives.