Obliterating Iraq's infant insurgents
by Chris D., Unknown News
October 23, 2007
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So once again, a bloody attack by American forces on Iraqis. And I notice a trend. The 'official' report made by an unnamed representative of the US army: Six dead, all criminals. The 'untrustworthy' Iraqi report: 13 dead and a whopping 69 wounded, most of which were sleeping when the roof over their heads exploded. Not that the corpses and rivers of blood actually amount to evidence or anything like that.
I have but one thing to say in light of this and many other horrific combat operations that claim to be targeting fewer than ten people, but wind up killing and maiming nearly a hundred: Don't use a goddamned bonesaw for a scalpel's job!
I've heard the term 'surgical strike' tossed around in relation to US combat operations. If that's surgery I'd suggest filing a malpractice suit. When operating on cancer an improper procedure only causes it to spread and take deeper hold in more vital areas, soon crippling and killing the patient. A doctor that screws up that badly is generally referred to as a quack and has their license to practice medicine revoked.
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When holding lives directly in one's hands, stupidity should never be tolerated. Not for doctors, not for lawyers, not for cops, not for teachers, and certainly not for generals. Somehow I doubt anybody in the military is having their license to kill revoked or even suspended pending an ethics committee review.
There's an old adage among hunters and hitmen, and I think it would apply to a situation where the military is attempting to take out a single person: "If you can't do it with a single shot, don't try to do it with twenty. In fact don't bother picking up the gun." The hitman adage finishes by saying "Because otherwise you should save a bullet for yourself."
While I'm not saying the people responsible for this disgraceful display should literally shoot themselves, I will suggest that they bite the bullet and resign so that somebody else can come up with ideas that might possibly work. I think we've all seen what success has been wrought from bombing the fuck out of a few city blocks to get at one person who may very well escape in the following carnage, leaving a few hundred other people who'll swear undying hatred and vengeance upon the killers of their friends and family.
Whatever happened to finesse and planning? What happened to honest-to-goodness intelligence? What happened to warfare that it's been reduced to the equivalent of gang violence and drive-by shootings?
Seriously, that's what it looks like. A fucking turf war between punk-ass gangbangers who only know each other by their respective colors, with no other concerns than their 'cred' and making people flinch when they walk by. For the love of everything that can be deemed holy or sacred will somebody please do something to prove that it isn't what it looks like?
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When holding lives directly in one's hands, stupidity should never be tolerated.
Not for doctors, not for lawyers, not for cops, not for teachers, and certainly not for generals.
Somehow I doubt anybody in the military is having their license to kill revoked or even suspended pending an ethics committee review.
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