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To: vpintheak
The Army trains to fight and kill the enemy. How did such a smart guy never know this.

The enemy? Whose enemy? The United States Congress hasn't declared war on the civilians in Gaza and killing non-combatants is a court-martial offense of murder.

There's a large, clear leap from "we're only helping to intercept inbound missiles and drones" to actively targeting civilian buildings.

The U.S. Army covered up the massacre at My Lai for more than a year until forced to admit to it and investigate it. With modern video and audio, expect a lot to come out Gaza.

33 posted on 05/13/2024 3:29:06 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Oddly, I am super concerned about innocent pals and that is exactly why I am very hopeful that Israel can root out hamas. It’s obvious that hamas has zero regard for human life.

Maybe they’ll even turn up the Arafat billion in the aftermath.

With commies, Marxists, islamists and their sympathizers destroying the western world in pursuit of global domination it’s fairly amazing coming across the amount of false equivalence, concern trolling, straw men, complete fabrication etc......


42 posted on 05/13/2024 4:11:57 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: T.B. Yoits

There is a huge difference between targeting civilians, as Hamas did on October 7th and as the soldiers did at My Lai, and collateral damage, where civilian casualties are a side effect if targeting legitimate military targets.

Israel works very hard to minimize civilian casualties, and has the lowest civilian to militant ratio EVER. We ourselves had a higher ratio in Iraq.

And this is despite Hamas’ using civilians to hide within.

Imagine placing a rocket launchers next to a school, waiting for a crowd to gather, and only then shooting off rockets to Israel. That is what Hamas does.

And Israel will not fire back if there are too many civilians there.

In effect: Hamas attacks civilians and uses their own as shields; Israel protects its civilians and does everything it can to minimize the deaths of enemy civilians.

The Gazans still support Hamas, despite Hamas’ actions leading to everything that has happened since. I feel for the people of Gaza because they are brainwashed pawns, but no one has ever come up with a workable solution other than this type of action.


65 posted on 05/14/2024 6:28:08 AM PDT by Chicory
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