I don't mean to be a killjoy, but for an Occupying Power to drop bombs on residential neighborhoods is a war crime. The three women and five children killed are not "collateral damage." They are human beings. They were killed by the United States. There are no such things as "precision strikes" in residential neighborhoods. Bombs not only throw off shrapnel themselves, they create lots of deadly flying debris, including flying glass from broken windows, that can kill and maim. Dropping bombs on an tank corps assembled in the desert and intending to do harm is one thing. Dropping bombs on a residential district is another.
- Juan Cole, Informed Comment
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Did you read how the United States government is sucking money out of Iraq's oil money to pay for our occupation? Isn't it nice to know that the Iraqi's are getting to help subsidize the humiliation and torture of their own people:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35280-2004Jun11.htmlBush must go!
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