Re: Evidence Mounts That U.S. Military is LYING About "Victory At Samarra"

"David Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in inimitable style:

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>> > > > Logic-Defying "Fact" #1:  U.S. suffers not one death, but kills
>> > > > 54 
>> >  Iraqis
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>> > >      The number 46 is only an estimate by the U.S. military.
>> > > This is going to take time to investigate, but truth is filtering
>> > > out.  News stories are appearing saying the death toll was lower,
>> > > but that there are dozens and dozens of wounded civilians.  The
>> > > dead include a woman and child.  The wounded include children.
>> > > And Iraqis say U.S. tanks fired at the cars arriving at the
>> > > hospital.  A mosque was attacked.  Workers getting off shift
>> > > at a pharmaceutical plant were attacked.
>> > >      There was an attack on U.S. forces, a bank robbery
>> > > attempt.  Iraqis say U.S. started firing in all directions
>> > > after that while some previously unarmed Iraqis grabbed
>> > > guns and joined the fight.
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>> > 1. How do we know that the civilians were shot by American forces?
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>> > 2. When the civilians "grabbed guns" and joined the fight, they
>> > became combatants, and thus were subject to being shot by the
>> > American troops. 
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>> Are you a gun loving American? Why do you own a gun?
>> Would you shoot at a foreign invading army?
>> I hope you would. That's what Iraqis do.
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> Then the idea that these "civilians" aere valid targets should not
> bother you.

I think it's the idea that these civilians are targets at all.  When U.S. 
troops have no business being in Iraq at all as illegal foreign invaders, 
any act of killing civilians resisting occupation of their homeland makes 
the act of the U.S. troops criminal.