Reply #80: Check the end of the Yahoo! piece especially [View All]

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where it says that Saddam had a sh!tload of shoulder-launched SAMs in his arsenal, which all "went missing" during the US invasion. Now the US has a "buy-back" plan to get them off the streets, but it must not be too popular if they're still being used.

Had we not sent troops into Iraq, those SAMs would still be under lock and key.

I don't condone the killing of ANYONE-- civilian or military. I am a pacifist, and I don't believe in killing another human being, PERIOD. I don't think it's right to cheer on one side or another in an armed conflict, because the conflict itself reduces human beings to monsters.

HOWEVER, I don't think it's proper to label one side "terrorists" and another as "freedom fighters", when the two can become so easily confused with a shift in perspective.

Hell, Reagan called the Contras in Nicaragua "freedom fighters" although they attacked schools, hospitals and democratically-elected government officials. I am quite sure there are people in the mideast who see any sort of western dominance (cultural, governmental, or commercial) as "terrorism".

Does that justify killing somebody? ABSOLUTELY NOT. But trying to empathize with the plight of these "terrorists" will do a lot more good than just killing them.