From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 05:57:22 MST
An off-list BCC'd friend of mine writes:
>>> Has ANYBODY succeeded in getting either stills or video of the POW
>>> broadcast aired by the enemy TV network?
gts wrote:
>> In case no one has yet answered this in the affirmative... ...
>> I have on my hard-drive the censored Al-Jazeera video footage of
>> both... May God bless America if she's in the right, and forgive
>> her if she's not.
>
> The video footage you have on your hard drive could actually be
> "enough" for me. That regime must go.
Yeah, no one disagrees that the Iraqi regime is very very bad. That's not
really the issue. There are a lot of bad leaders in the world who would
treat their people and their POW's badly, but we don't normally sacrifice
the lives of Americans for that reason alone.
>> Any footage that may emerge
>> of the deaths of innocent Iraqi citizens will be equally as sobering.
>
> The deaths caused by the Iraqi government? Directly (shot),
> indirectly (forced human shield)?...
It makes no difference how they die. The murder of innocent people is never
a good thing, no matter what the reason or the method. As invaders of Iraq
with full knowledge of Saddam's wicked personality, we are indirectly
responsible even for the atrocities that Saddam commits against his own
people in his own defense. The real question is whether it's worth it or
not. How many innocent Iraqis should die now as a consequence of the war
effort to save how many innocent Iraqis who could theoretically die later by
Saddam's hand? How can anyone figure the math?
I say no one can figure the math. The best we can do is think, as I do, "God
bless America if she's in the right, and forgive her if she's not."
-gts
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