[Askel5]

=== We expect our soldiers to be men of character, and while that means you don't commit atrocities, it also means you don't lose sight of your moral war aims.


I think this cuts to part of the reason these actions are so unexcusable in this particular instance. The moral aims of a war whose self-defense measures are "preventive" at least leaves us touting ourselves a Liberators who have arrived to bring democracy and freedom and "rights" to Iraqis.

Because we've raised the bar on ourselves thus, it's only natural that things are different.

How many times have we been told this is a whole new kind of war? Chances are good all sorts of rules have changed.

[John Lenin]

Hack is so phoney he is pathetic. He reminds of John McCain, liberals have put him on a pedastool and it has gone to his head. His lame attempts at logic are a joke. There is NO MORAILTY in war, unless hack can claim that he never killed anyone he is just talking out of his ass.