[Mrs. Don-o]

(I wrote) I don't think that completely obviates any responsibility to try to protect noncombatants, or to avoid objectively indiscriminate destruction.

(You wrote) That statement tells me that you have little actual knowledge of how the military thinks or is run.

President Bush has stated repeatedly that our military in Iraq is straining every muscle to protect noncombatants, and avoid objectively indiscriminate destruction. So, is he wrong?

[elbucko]

So, is he wrong?

No! But I don't think that Truman was wrong either.

[elbucko]

(I wrote) I don't think that completely obviates any responsibility to try to protect noncombatants, or to avoid objectively indiscriminate destruction.

You know, lady, in all my training, I was never encouraged, nay, but always discouraged to the point that it was almost my duty to sacrifice myself for the good of the civilians around me and now you have the nerve to imply that this is not done as a matter of course in the US military.

SHAME ON YOU!

You're ignorance renders you almost not worth a soldiers life.