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To: flightleader
You missed one. I had a discussing with a couple of 20 somethings at lunch about this, and then by chance Hannity had a 19yr old ditz spout it off:

It's not right for the US to murder all those innocent Iraqis

The innocent Iraqis that were killed while liberating Iraq were not murdered. Murder is defined as "The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice". The two qualifiers are unlawfulness and premedited malice.

The US Congress, including John Kerry and John Edwards, gave the president legal authorization to conduct the forceful removal of the Hussein regime. Additionally, several UN resolutions gave prerequisites for the use of force, which were sufficiently fulfilled, even though it was never voted on by the General Assembly. It equates to if I murder you, and the law does not charge me, I have still commited murder. The legal justifications have been made at both the national level and the international level.

The innocent civilians were accidentally killed by US munitions. Killed being defined as "To put to death or to deprive of life". The United States military went to extraordinary lengths to cut to a minimum accidental deaths. Even so far as to put US service members at greater risk. This is of no consolation to those that have lost loved ones, due to US action. It should be consolation to those that otherwise would have been killed had the US indiscriminately used it's power. In short the US did not go into action pruposely targeting civilians.

15 posted on 07/15/2004 4:38:23 PM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Turbo Pig

Too bad the ditz's don't feel the same sense of outrage over the 3,000 dead Americans in their own country.


21 posted on 07/15/2004 5:24:27 PM PDT by milford421
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