US Marines allegedly massacre Iraqi civilians

[Yannick]

You can't invade yourself either

[EON_MagicMan]

Originally Posted by WarHawk109

you can't invade all the countries with evil dictators all at once. poor argument.

You can sure as hell invade the ones that are *far* worse in terms of human rights compared to Iraq!

[WarHawk109]

but they had other good reasons to invade iraq tho!

[Gauntlet]

WMDs?

[Big Lebowski]

i dont really care for a reason anymore.. all i know is what ever the reason was it has gone horrible wrong.
first mistakes made:

invading with too little man power.

disbanding the iraqy army.

= no security

and there for criminals where free to act.

infiltrating of terrorist into iraq.

ex iraqy soldiers fighting for money against the coalition.

[Force Recon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060601/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

disbanding the iraqy army.

I believe some Generals ended up loyal to the US.Do they still serve in the army?

[WarHawk109]

Originally Posted by Gauntlet

WMDs?

That, and enforcement of the numerous UN resolutions that Saddam broke.

[mcderek3000]

20 years ago, my parents used to look up to the United States. We were in a Soviet-occupied country where the police could simply run into a building and kill the families there because of suspicious activity. Hell, they could simply bomb the building with civilians in it. Also, people suspected of anti-nationalist beliefs would be taken to prison without any evidence or trial and expect to be tortured there until they do confess to something (whether they did it or not). They used to believe in America and listen to Radio Free Europe.

Now, America is guilty for committing these very crimes. And just like the Stalin-apologists believed that torture and violent attacks on civilians were just collateral damage rather than a symptom of the Soviet rule, MA and Warhawk seem to be making the same excuses.

These are extremely serious crimes against innocent people. If I lose my cool and kill a family with a gun, I expect to be sentenced for life, no questions asked. I don't believe that the entire American army is like these people, but I do believe that this situation is a symptom of the Iraqi attack and all the mistakes that were made throughout.

[WarHawk109]

The difference being was this was not state sanctioned, and those responsible will more than likely be punished for their actions.

[AzH]

Four reasons:

1. Oil
2. OPEC
3. EU
4. $$$

But we're getting off the subject at hand. Let's get back on it as of now, please.