TROOPS BETTER EQUIPPED AT KILLING INNOCENTS THAN TERRORISTS

No matter what goes on in Iraq, I'm been hearing that the Iraqis are suffering worse under our rule than they did when Saddam was alive.

But what gets my goat is the fact that some writers--and some people--believe that whenever a US soldier indiscriminately kills an Iraqi civilian, they are quick to point out that that soldier was just "doing his duty", or "this is war", and they should be getting a parade or a medal for their actions.

Really?

For what? For Private Green gunning down a family in cold blood last year, after raping an Iraqi girl, and then trying to cover up the incident by setting them all on fire?

Should we give that private the Medal of Honor for his actions? I'm sure that would be just great, wouldn't it?

A nice fat medal...?

Or how about those soldiers whom were responsible for massacring 24 unarmed Iraqis in Haditha? Or how about the recent incident where 3 Iraqi children were killed by a Bradley tank?

Should we give that tank crew a standing ovation, a ticker-tape parade, and a series of medals for ending the lives of those three kids?

Should we?

Yes.

Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we should be congratulating our troops for snuffing out the lives of those civilians--while we constantly blame Al-Qaeda and the Sunni-led insurgency for our indiscriminate acts of terrorism against the Iraqi people.

After all, our military is better trained at killing people than any terrorist group I know.

Sure, bin Laden bagged himself 3000 dead Americans on 9-11, but how many dead Iraqi civilians have we really killed over the last 5.5 years while in Iraq?

And how many will we continue to kill in the years to come?

Schuyler Thorpe

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