Reply #4: Not so tricky, actually... [View All]

[Sir Craig]

What the poster was demonstrating is that atrocities can happen anywhere at anytime. He draws a parallel between Fallujah from a week ago and America from decades ago - the America of today certainly would not tolerate something like that happening here today (witness the national outcry when James Byrd Jr., a black man from Texas, was killed and his body viciously dragged behind a pick-up truck), but it did happen here (and as illustrated sometimes still does): America is not a nation of innocents.

What happened in Fallujah was indeed barbaric, and there will never be a justifiable reason for what happened. At the same time, however, our history has shown we have had no shortage of barbaric acts of our own, and to claim righteous indignation is hypocritical on our part.

What I feel needs to be brought first and foremost in our minds is who put our people in that position, and why there is such enmity towards Americans in that region: BushCo is as guilty of what happened to those men as any of those who partook in the atrocity of Fallujah. Our men and women are at risk over there based on a network of lies and false pretenses, and we have killed many Iraqis as a result of those lies. It is no wonder the Coalition presense is not regarded as "liberators"; the liberation has become an occupation, based solely on the greed and avarice of Shrub* and company.

I hate what happened to those men, but I hate even more knowing it never had to happen.