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To: zzpat who wrote (68911)	4/29/2018 2:39:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357134

There are international rules about killing. Chemical agents are illegal. We aren't getting real excited about the other civilian casualties, like from barrel bombs. Geneva Protocol - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts. It was signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925

To: zzpat who wrote (68911)

4/29/2018 4:00:09 PM

From: koan

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Yes, I have lamented about that my entire life. Where is the empathy?

Or critical thinking :)>?

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We get upset of Syria using gas on his people and killing some kids. Yes, a horrible act. The US bombs Iraq and kills hundreds of kids in one week and it's not headline news in the US, but it's headline news around the world. It's this dichotomy that fascinates me. People are able to ignore or not know what we do but be outraged over what others do even though they're basically the same thing - kids are killed.

When the US media and government was obsessing over 20 kids in Syria the US had just killed 200 civilians in Mosul. In June of this year, the NY Times reported that we killed 484 civilians in Iraq and Syria. How many Americans know this? 1%, maybe 2%?

I guess killing innocent people only matters when the other side does it.