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Originally posted by Not Me
What suspicions? That the insurgents are hiding out in houses and using women and children as human shields? So what should the US forces do then? Keep letting marines get killed because the insurgents are using human shields? In that situation, someone has to die. It is either the insurgents and unfortunately the human shields being used by the insurgents or US marines. If they let these insurgents hide out in these houses and continue to attack the marines, it is the marines that die.
War is ugly and when insurgents are using civilian human shields, it is very, very ugly.
You have just confirmed my suspicions that you don't have any relatives in Iraq. So it is easy for you to say that the US forces shouldn't defend themsevles just because those murdering them use human shields.
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There were good military reasons for Clinton to use cruise missiles when he did -- my post didn't say that we shouldn't ever be dropping bombs, but was directed at the armchair warriors who bitched when Clinton used cruises missiles but don't think twice when we're bombing a country we're occupying. If we had enough troops on the ground to do the job, would we be bombing Iraqi cities? The fact that we're bombing reflects that the situation is not fully under control.
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