Was Killing Iraqi Children Worth It?

[Echo In Light]

Was Killing Iraqi Children Worth It?
By Jacob G. Hornberger

A snapshot of the opening scene in the U.S. invasion of Iraq provides an excellent insight into the immorality and horror of the entire operation, from start to whenever it finally finishes.

According to an article in yesterday's New York Times, at the outset of the invasion the U.S. military dropped bombs on a palatial compound in which Saddam Hussein was hiding. The article states:

"But instead of killing the Iraqi dictator, they had killed Mr. Kharbit's older brother, Malik al-Kharbit - the very man who had led the family's negotiations with the C.I.A. to topple Mr. Hussein. The bombings also killed 21 other people, including children, and the fury it aroused has been widely believed to have helped kick-start the insurgency in western Iraq."

To state what I consider self-evident moral truths, it was morally wrong and a grave violation of God's laws to:

(1) attack a country whose government and citizenry had never attacked the United States;

(2) kill Iraqis, including children and their families, in order to achieve regime change in Iraq; and

(3) kill Iraqis, including children and their families, in order to spread "democracy" to Iraq.

One can only wonder whether the American people, in crises of conscience, will ever confront such issues.

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2008-04-03.asp

[dbt]

1. Sure it was!

Halliburton (and the Democrats who are so heavily invested in "defense" stocks, as it now comes to light) made a KILLING.

By my own calculations (based on 2000 census figures), 48 per cent of the Iraqi population (before we killed 'em off for what they did to us on 9/11) was 18 or under.

USA! USA! USA! (repeat as necessary)

:evilgrin:

[ThomWV]

2. Worth what? What price of this war have I paid? My taxes have not gone up to cover it.

[anniebelle]

3. Oh yes they have, you just don't see it on your 1040.

You see it at the grocery store, the gas pumps, the housing market. Your taxes are going to pay off these robber barons. Our local taxes are skyrocketing to cover what services are left for our citizens. The hospitals in my area are groaning with cuts and so are the schools.

[Echo In Light]

4. Yep. Was in an ER over the winter and it was worse than one of those walk-in Quick Trip med centers

"Oh, I see. So ...you're here to see a doctor?"

[pretzel4gore]

5. we should support the War on Tots....

our comfort and ease depend upon the war...tots are potential terrorists, which is reason enough for killing em. Too many old men sit upon toilets- their guts are stuffed, and ...the War on Tots helps them crap (btw, Alice Cooper's 'Dead Babies' is thee best song for marching to war, on them tots)
WOT is premptive war, in foxnews/cnnbcbs/abc logical terms. IMAGINE the money we save!
(real patriots would make up poster signs saying 'Support the War on Tots' with a yeller ribbon watermark, and post them all over...the president depends on us, so let's roll)

[madrchsod]

6. the usa has`t stopped killing iraqi kids for 18 years....

[spanone]

7. i'll echo those sentiments