Lusipher wrote:Its a sad thing to have happened, WW. I dont belittle what happened to both our folks and the civilians who were affected. War is just that way, though. How many folks you think were affected during WW2?
For example by the Yalta Agreement signed by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, where the Allied Democracies turned over to Soviet authorities more than 2,250,000 Soviet citizens, prisoners of war, and Russian exiles (who were not Soviet citizens) found in the Allied zones of occupation in Europe. Most of these people were terrified of the consequences of repatriation and refused to cooperate in their repatriation; often whole families preferred suicide. Of those the Allied Democracies repatriated an estimated 795,000 were executed, or died in slave-labor camps or in transit to them. Necessary deaths I suppose. No big deal.
Or for more modern times the Rwandan civil war, or the war in Darfur, both of which resulted in genocides. Well, by Lusipher's measure you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette after all.
The point you're missing here is that war *is* bad, and therefore you shouldn't start them unless you absolutely have to. Knowing that wide-scale tragedy will ensue, perhaps other options should be explored. But the Bushies were too busy lying about the mushroom cloud that would occur if we didn't invade Iraq to really care about outcomes, and now we're spending billions to remain in their mess.
And yes, if some other country had invaded us to liberate us from the Tyranny of Bush, and your family was collaterally massacred as a result, I bet you wouldn't be waving their flag.
