Posted on 12/20/2001 9:11:09 AM PST by afuturegovernor
This administration should be ashamed of itself. And it should be held accountable. Unfortunately, the empire-builders and warmongers and their allies in the press will work overtime to make sure these revelations never see the light of day in the "mainstream press."
Imagine that! A nation chooses the lives of its own citizens over the lives of a combatant nation's citizens! The horror...
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LOL Reminds me of the dopey French Canadian economics professor the Gorons had testify during the post election trials. He too based his faulty findings on faulty data provided by the Dems, without verifying the facts.
How about this:
As Commander on Chief, President Bush's mandate is to protect the citizens of his own nation first and foremost. If he can do that and spare the lives of civilians in the enemy country, so much the better. If not, the safety of our own troops and civilians must be paramount. On this, there can be no compromise.
How about this best argument ... I DON'T CARE!
200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.
I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.
I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.
I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.
Kill them all ... nits make lice.
COL Chivington (Sand Creek)
Here are his sources. All of them unsubstantuated. No photos! No video! No proof of corpses! And if these are indeed "corroborated" then why is the final body total an "estimate"?
Based on corroborated reports from aid agencies, the UN, eyewitnesses, TV stations, newspapers and news agencies around the world, Herold estimates that at least 3,767 civilians were killed by US bombs between October 7 and December 10.
Wanna know what CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, ABC and ABC said were the TOTAL dead of the WTC? Over 7000! Know what it is? Less that 3000! The UN in the Bosinia war estimated mass Albania graves of dead Albanians close to 1 million. Actual graves found about 10,000, as a matter of fact there were more Serbian killed found in Mass graves than Albanians! Also how do you get an ESTIMATE of a precise number like 3,767 from unsubstantuated sources? Pop you head out of your propaganda an realize that unless a name is attached to a body, estimates are usually over inflated. Remember these are the same sources that said this war would be a quagmire, ESTIMATED to be in it for several years!
YOU:So, your argument is that we are no worse than the Taliban?
Apparently identifying arguements is not your strong suit, so I'll make it explicit. The point concerned the Guardian's knee - jerk anti - American reflex. If it were civilian casualties that troubled them they would have had many occasions to complain. That they choose to do so now indicates that it is something else that moves them to howling indignation. If you refrain from selective quotation it will probably help your clarity of thought.
"...One man, a 35-year-old farmer who lost his wife, her husband, and six of their seven children, said, "Before the bombing, the Taliban was always saying that American s were enemies of Muslims and of Islam, and we did not believe that. But nowadays, when [the US forces] are killing innocent people, we believe that what the Taliban was saying about America is true: they are trying to kill Muslims and finish Islam..."
I wasn't aware that the dead could speak? How many times does this man get counted?
That is the biggest pantload I have seen in some time, and you are truly despicable for trying to make such an asinine equivalence. The terrorists deliberately targeted two civilian buildings in New York and made efforts to maximize civilian casualties, and initiated force against this country. We responded by targeting military resources in the country that harbored the terrorist group responsible for the attack. In such situations, civilians will get killed, BUT THEY ARE NOT OUR PRIMARY TARGET NOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR MISSION. I defy your sorry ass to come up with a viable alternative that allows this country to take out an enemy that DELIBERATELY hides among civilians and uses them as shields. In earlier wars, the civilian death toll for such an operation would have been far higher, but you don't care about that, you just want to get a warm smug feeling (kinda like wetting your pants) decrying a legitimate military operation to defend this country against further attack.
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