no, toonski, you're wrong. And that's not what I meant.
I am not denying those tapes were real but denying that it is a fact they were US missiles, and especially 5 of them.
Irak still has Surface-to-surface missiles and those may have attacked the market.
It's not an impossibility that Irak's troops would have done such a thing.
The US says that Iraki irregulars are dressing up in US / British soldier clothing, accepting surrenders, and then executing people.
Irak's irregulars and Republican Guard are using fake surrenders to kill and capture American soldiers.
Irak is situating its soldiers, weapons, and anti-tank/anti-air/anti-personell installations near civilian buildings.
Irak has put mines into the harbors of the port cities. I saw one on TV. It was round and looked 4-5 feet in diameter.
The US deliberately did not go into cities where there is resistance because they don't want to kill innocent people
accidentally.
To me there is an obvious black and white here. Sure, the US may make mistakes (and not deliberate ones too-- Irak may also have used jamming equipment, 6 installations of which were blown up according to Centcom..)
but
the US is morally right concerning both the strategy to minimize both coalition soldiers and Iraki civilian and surrendering Iraki military lives (and therefore EXTEND the war, the cost, and inflame stupid idiotic people who think the war is going bad!)
There.
I'm sorry but I just don't see how this just and right war is even close to being a gray area. It is good for Irak and good for the world.
Examples of idiots:
1) Iraki living in Jordan who is going back to Irak to fight coalition soldiers, allegedly:
"Yeah, I was against Saddam b4 the war but now I will go to fight the Americans as well b/c they invaded Irak."
2) Pope John Paul II: This war is lik' totally gonna destroy the world.
3) Igor Ivanov:
Stop the war ; we haven't sold anything to Irak (nor any of our private companies);
Quote:MOSCOW (March 26) - Reflecting a new chill between Moscow and Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to destroy Iraq and waging what he dubbed an information war against Russia.
-AP, Vladimir Isachenkov
Now Saddam Hussein isn't an idiot. He's managed to get about half the civilized world, indeed the people he's opressed for dozens of years, to support him against the infidels and murderers that the coalition and Mr. Bush is.