Re: WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG IRAQIS KILLED BY US FORCES

War is hell..... at least we let Iraq know far in advance that we were
coming. That's somewhat better than the 3,000 civilian victims that were
murdered in New York without warning on 9/11. I don't believe any war has
ever taken place without civilian causalities. Doesn't make it right but war
is about killing people....not baking cookies!

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> U.S. Kills 54 Iraqis In Bloodiest Battle Since April
>
> U.S. forces killed up to 54 Iraqis Sunday in Samarra in one of the
> bloodiest battles since the fall of Baghdad. Pentagon officials
> claimed all of the Iraqis killed were fighters but Agence France Press
> reports that local medics said at least eight of the Iraqis were
> civilians including an Iraqi woman and child. The Los Angeles Times
> also reported that local residents said some of the victims worked at
> a pharmaceutical factory which was hit accidentally by U.S. tanks. The
> U.S. said the killings came in response to Iraqi attacks on three U.S.
> convoys near Samarra.
>
> GIVEN THE REGULAR KILLING OF CIVILIAN MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
> AS IS EXPECTED IN ANY OCCUPATION BY BRUTE FORCE, IT'S NOT SUPRIRSING
> THAT "NOBODY...CAN STILL MAINSTAIN THAT THE MAJORITY
> OF IRAQI CONSIDER COALITION TROOPS TO BE THEIR 'LIBERATORS'" AS NOTED:
>
> November: Deadliest Month For Coalition Forces So Far
> It came at the end of a weekend that saw coalition forces suffer 14
> deaths including seven Spanish intelligence agents, two Korean
> contractors, two Japanese diplomats, two US soldiers and a Colombian
> contractor. A total of 111 coalition forces died in November marking
> the deadliest month since the U.S. invaded Iraq. In Spain, calls for
> the return of all Spanish troops increased. Polls show 85 percent of
> the country believe the war in Iraq was a mistake. The newspaper El
> Mundo editorialized "Nobody who saw the glee with which passersby
> trampled the corpses of our countrymen can still maintain that the
> majority of Iraqis consider coalition troops to be their liberators."
> We'll have more on the reaction in Spain and Japan later in the show.
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