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"I only worry about the nervous nellies that seems to think that war is now so clean and antiseptic that we should never expect casualties."

I am far from being a "nervous Nelly".
I expect to have troops killed, but the only reason you'd ever have troops closed up in a walled compound fighting for their life is because our Marines aren't allowed to use the firepower they have for fear of killing civilians.

Having a few civilians killed as collateral damage is one thing, and there is no way to control that one way or the other anyway.

Creating a massive "Massacre of Fallujah" with tens of thousands of civilian dead is quite another matter. Not only would it be unwise politically, it would be *wrong*.

We are the good guys, remember? Just because our enemy would do it doesn't mean we are cleared to do it. If we are just as bad as them then we would have been all wrong about changing their government. That's not who we are. We fight for better values than that.

Look... I cry over our dead and maimed. I hate that such evil happens to such great men and women. But they are over there fighting for something important. We are making the argument that our way of life and our values are superior to those of our enemy. You can cut it up any way you like, but that's why we're there.