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Originally posted by Evil Baby,
would you agree with this bombing if it could be shown that the hospital was being used as an ammunition dump? |
Like the "baby food" factory in Gulf 1?
The biggest problem with a war like this, and the most difficult for a military trained to fight another army, is the civilian casualties. The Iraqis know this, as well as the Palestinians. Set up the combatants in people's houses, or mosques, and hope the other side doesn't shoot for fear of looking like blatant murderers.
A calculated risk, but the U.S. seems to not want to play that game anymore. Either they bomb houses and hospitals or the insurgents slip through their hands. Of course the case could be made that the insurgents were the ones who put the civilians in harms way, thereby absolving the U.S. for the deaths of civilians. That case which has some merit, but also points up one of the biggest blunders Bush has made in all this, which is not anticipating this might happen. The case could also be made that we bomb these places because it's the easiest thing to do. We just can't FIND these fighters and they know it. We know it too.
It appears to be a calculated risk WE are taking. Kill 'em all or come up empty handed.