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JohnWarren -> RE: al-Zarqaqi killed in Iraq (6/9/2006 5:34:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
Two five hundred pound bombs and fuck any innocents that get in the way as long as one of the dead is the right one?
To the relatives of the dead do you think it makes any difference who killed their loved ones, al-zarqaqi or the Americans or who ever else. The whole point we were told of invading Iraq was to liberate people not murder them or am I so naive?
While his death might be welcome, some might say it is at too high a price if innocent lives are taken because his death won't stop the insurgency because a lot of the insurgency has nothing to do with him.
If innocent lives are happily being taken then the US, Britain and everybody else shouldn't be there.
While I agree strongly we should never have invaded and should get out as fast as possible, from a tactical point of view, I gotta go along with the commander on the ground here.
My men were valuable both to me and to this nation. To me, because of the bond we had built up both in combat and in training and to this nation because of the substantial amount of money it had invested in training them.
Given this situation, I was always open to approaches that would allow me to accomplish my mission without undue risk to my men. In my day, I probably would have surrounded the place with interlocking fields of fire and called in 81mm mortars. The options today are richer and a laser guided bomb would have been my approach too.
Of course, we could have made a dynamic entry and sorted out the sheep from the goats, but I'm pretty sure, given that group, I would have lost a few men (I'd have a good chance of getting killed myself, but that's further down the prorities).
As to innocent lives, one does not become a "guilty life" by putting on a uniform. Those guys in the boxes with the flags over them are innocent lives too.
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