Re: What Is Jonnie's problem here?

usual suspect wrote:

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> Here are some of your callous remarks about it.

>     The attack on 9/11 was just dandy because it involved an
>     airplane?

>     Try asking yourself -- how would we feel if Iraq decided they   
>     didn't like our government and engaged in violent attack to try
>     to depose our government? Oh -- that was what the Al-Qaida did
>     (in much less violent form than our invasion of Iraq) on 9/11.
>     Doesn't seem we accepted the rationale when someone used it on
>     us.

> I still take issue with your contention that 9/11 was less violent than 
> our war with Iraq.

With casualties at 10,000 and rising daily -- Yeah, it was less violent.

I'm currently reading _Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions
and War_, edited by Anthony Arnove.  The things we have done to Iraq --
including deliberately dropping bombs on civilians -- are truly 
appalling.  No one says that the 9/11 attack (which had no connection
whatever to Iraq) was justified, or anything less than tragic.  But the
U.S. _has_ done equally horrible things, and things which, as I noted
above, we would regard with justifiable outrage if the Afghanis or the
Iraqis had done them to us.

It's always the innocent civilians who get caught in the middle when
governments go to war -- their civilians, our civilians.  And I don't
regard their civilians as any less worthy of concern than our civilians.

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Rat