Let's get a few things straight. We are not at war in Iraq. It doesn't matter how many resolutions Congress passes saying that our occupation of a sovereign country is part of the global war on terror; saying it doesn't make it so. Our troops that are in country should be acting as police officers for our puppet government.
Police officers surround suspects and arrest them and put them on trial and minimize the danger to uninvolved civilians. Armies drop bombs on people that they want to kill and if they want to kill them badly enough, they discount the deaths of uninvolved civilians as "collateral damage." Have you given much thought to the idea of dropping a bomb on al-Zarqawi? No arrest. No trial. We're supposed to just take the word of George "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Bush that he was a bad guy. Hell, he wasn't even indicited. We don't even know what it was that he's supposed to have done wrong. And killing him was worth killing children as "collateral damage."
We have at least three instances on record of our soldiers murdering civilians in Iraq. That sort of thing is going to happen when you train boys to be soldiers and then tell them to be peace officers.
I said from the beginning that the Rangers should have taken the FBI with them to Afghanistan. Now, I'm saying that if we're going to continue to do police work in Iraq, let's try to have it done like it would be by policemen.
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