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Note the word mass. Civilian casualties are a harsh reality. Every civilian in that town knew that he was in the area. It would have been appropriate to smoke the whole town. But we did not. That is the restraint and decency that the USA shows.

Precisely!!!

If this was another time and place with a true Imperial power such as Rome.

Every adult male in the town would have been killed and the women and children sold into slavery.

It IS BECAUSE WE ARE A BENEVOLENT NATION that we are conducting this Iraq campaign in the first place.

A real Imperial power with our kind of weaponry would have just vaporized the Middle East after 9-11.

We are actually trying to reform and SAVE the Middle East and in the process SAVE millions of lives.

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......It IS BECAUSE WE ARE A BENEVOLENT NATION that we are conducting this Iraq campaign in the first place...

We now have a village of really bad enemies that hate us even more. The destruction of the enemy is really not a bad thing. This village could prove to be harmful in the future.

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We are actually trying to reform and SAVE the Middle East and in the process SAVE millions of lives.

So Mohammed, Achmed, and Christopher are walking down the road. Mo' and Ach tarry along the way in order to pleasure themselves with goats and camels. They invite Christopher to participate, but he declines. When evening comes Christopher goes to the local village in search of women. Mo' and Ach castigate him roundly for going in search of the valued virgins. Christopher replies "how else are we going to produce more virgins?" Consider.