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To: Aaron0617
AFP: 1 killed and 13 hurt as U.S. Marines face resistance in Bagdad

From this it sounds to me like our Marines are being careful not to damage these mosques. I wish we'd start leveling these things.

396 posted on 04/09/2003 11:51:08 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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To: Aaron0617
From this it sounds to me like our Marines are being careful not to damage these mosques. I wish we'd start leveling these things.

While we can all understand the sentiment - this war is also a war for the hearts and minds of the muslims! If we start wantonly destroying buildings they consider sacred (and they WILL see it that way regardless of what we say!), the little sympathy we have will disappear! We must win on this "second" front as well, or all of the sacrifice will be for naught.

403 posted on 04/09/2003 11:55:28 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate
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To: Aaron0617
We should just tell the Iraqis we are going to have to destroy the Mosques to get rid of Saddam and then help them rebuild them. They might even help us.
406 posted on 04/09/2003 11:58:57 PM PDT by TheLion
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