Why are we still killing Iraqis?????

[Bandit]

There were no WMDs. Saddam was not a threat. There were no Ties to Al Qaeda. the people being killed today are just plain Iraqi people. Why? Why? WHY? What possible justification is there? everything they told us to start this war turned out to not be true. Why are we still killing?

[madrchsod]

1. ask bush for the answer

[knowbody0]

2. no doubt

it is my question as well. it is america doing this. we are americans. these are our weapons. this is our karma. these people are resisting the occupation of their nation, we are the enemy. we all need to rise up. please keep this topic on the table. ask george would be like saying hitler did it, it was not our fault.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. The people they are killing today oppose US policies

Particularly the US policy to retain gunmen in Iraq, and kill Iraqis.

[TripleD]

20. They are preparing for the elections

by eliminating the opposition.

The people still living in areas that are "insurgent strongholds" might vote against Alawi.

[movonne]

4. Maybe that is a question the media should ask...I feel the same

way, it breaks my heart that we are killing all these people...Why are not the pastors, priests also asking this question??? Why are not the good Christian people asking this question???? No they are to worried about gay marriage.

[Booster]

5. We are killing good people who have done absolutely nothing to us.

I want it to stop now. The longer this goes on, the worse the U.S. looks in the eyes of the world and we are building up hate like we have never seen before. If we elect this bozo again we will be saying to the world we agree with what he is doing.

[bread_and_roses]

6. because the war was always about war-profiteering

not about US security. And everybody in the world except evidently the US Congress and US citizens knew it. The war was always illegal, always naked aggression, always about profit. Why else was one of the first acts of the occupation to repress unions, why else no contracts given to Iraqis, why else the oil ministry and not the museums protected? Why else were we unwilling to count how many of those we were supposedly liberating we killed? Why else call infants "insurgents?"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. To keep Dudya's jockstrap looking like there's something in it.

And, to justify the "defense" budget and keep the generals in war toys.

Memo to self: Spellcheck before posting.

[the_outsider]

8. they are just collateral damages in a noble cause

which is to transfer wealth from American people to the chosen few - the executives and the big shareholders.

[ThomWV]

9. Because They're In There Surging Against Us

Isn't that what an insurgent is? Someone who is in some place surging against you?

There is no rational reason what so ever for us to be there at all except it is to put in place military instillations of such size and force as to make us the most powerful standing army in the region. It is not about Iraq's oil, it is control over the oil of the entire region that is the aim and if gaining it serves to protect Israel at the same time so much the better because it takes a block who would not normally offer support and almost forces their positive vote. If someone can give me another rational for war with Iraq I'd sure like to hear it.

[gratuitous]

10. Because they don't bow down to the American wehrmacht

They don't want George W. Bush to practice his true, first, and only real love -- his love of killing.

[Bluebear]

11. They hate us for our freedom.

Furious George said it's so.

[Cleita]

12. How come Dumbya wasn't asked that very question in the debates?

Does anyone have the chutzpa to do so in the last debate?

[Aristus]

13. They didn't display the proper gratitude for our illegal invasion of their

country and the 10-15 thousand innocent people we butchered in the "Shocking and Awful" bombing campaign.

Plus, they're trying to defend the oil we want to steal.

Plus, they are brown-skinned non-Christians, and we know how Georgie boy's base LOOOOOOOVES to kill non-whites.

Plus, they had to temerity to actually FIGHT BACK when we occupied their country as a result of a pack of lies.

Does that answer your question?

[Karenina]

14. Put them all together they spell

GENOCIDE.

[BeFree]

15. Because

The US declared war on the Iraqi people because the Iraqi people flew planes into our buildings?

Funny, I don't recall the US declaring war on the Iraqi people... must be a mistake, eh?

Bring our troops home. Now.

[the_outsider]

16. there is none, it's unacceptable

as soon as Kerry wins, we have to start making sustained noises.

[bpilgrim]

17. in order to 'fix it' since we 'broke it' we 'owe it to them'

unfortunately this is the conventional 'wisdom' mouthed even by our own leaders.

:crazy:

peace

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Because an Iron Fist doesn't require creativity or brains.

In the (alleged) minds of politicians and generals crushing people is much less risky than trying to deal with them and mistakes can be literally buried.

[karlrschneider]

19. Just a wild guess here...maybe because they're resisting the illegal

invasion and occupation of their country? Naw, couldn't be -that-, surely.

[DrWeird]

21. They're muslim.

Americans like killing muslims.