All this damn hair-splitting and gnashing of teeth is totally unnecessary.

[Atticus]

While I can understand some of the sentiment about how the helicopter gunship crew in the Wikileaks video shouldn't be held accountable for the slaughter and certainly shouldn't be called "murderers", (we're programmed to give our people the benefit of the doubt) that sentiment is ONLY present in the hearts and minds of SOME in this country.

To the rest of the world---and, I believe, to most in this country---this crew was there on behalf of a much larger foreign power whose morally bankrupt leaders had launched an immoral, illegal and unprovoked war of aggression against a much smaller nation.

And, we are wondering whether or not or to what extent this blood-bath was "acceptable" or "justified"???

Next thing we know, we'll be laboring to decide whether or not waterboarding is torture!

How SICK would that be?

[mrs_p]

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