Black Dog wrote:
Gentlemen,
Nobody knows the exact figures. The US military is purposefully not
keeping score (just one of the fishy things about this war).

I agree, but it's really not their job.


I doubt the US military is *deliberately* killing civilians

I've never seen anybody claim that.


(and would
hate to be shown otherwise), but that does NOT absolve them of
responsibility.

Agreed. And from both a legal and moral standpoint, that responisibility
goes all the way to the top of the chain of command.


Stella
On topic - help! - my husband wants to buy a schooner!


You want us to help him buy it? Or you want us to help you prevent him?
Why? A schooner sounds like an awful lot of fun, I've always wanted one
myself. But I already have too many boats.

Regards
Doug King

"DSK" wrote in message
...
Black Dog wrote:
Gentlemen,
Nobody knows the exact figures. The US military is purposefully not
keeping score (just one of the fishy things about this war).

I agree, but it's really not their job.


I doubt the US military is *deliberately* killing civilians

I've never seen anybody claim that.

Harry wrote:
"The US military deliberately targets civilians, doh-doh. Why do you
believe that our "hits" on non-combatants are accidental? Because we
say they are? "

I doubt the US military is *deliberately* killing civilians

I've never seen anybody claim that.


NOYB wrote:
Harry wrote:
"The US military deliberately targets civilians, doh-doh. Why do you
believe that our "hits" on non-combatants are accidental? Because we
say they are? "


Well, there's a reason why I read very few of his posts.

But it's stupid to claim that the U.S. military deliberately targets
civilians... it's pointless and expensive. Now, they *do* kill people
based on intel that may not be entirely correct, and they have been
blowing things up so that Halliburton can rebuild them... minimizing
"collateral damage" while doing so...

The problem here is that when you're playing with such powerful toys,
it's easy to hurt lots of people. Look at that pilot who flew under the
ski lift cable... totally an accident, totally caused by an excess of
testosterone, those people are all still totally dead...

You can understand why many people are skeptical of the motives of the
U.S. military; and *definitely* why many more are skeptical of the
Bush/Cheney administration. But the point stands- the U.S. military has
no interest in slaughtering hapless civilians.

DSK

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:16:07 -0500, DSK wrote:


But the point stands- the U.S. military has
no interest in slaughtering hapless civilians.


It warms my heart to hear you say that.


Dave