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[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

I will be the first to admit that I'm desensitized to the VA shootings as I am to everything else.

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[elbowmedic.livejournal.com]

its time to worry about our back yard not the other guys yard across town, we take care of our own, the civil war going on along with the war in iraq makes for alot of deaths, if our troops where allowed to fight a war without the current restrictions, the amount of iraqi domestic acts of terrorism would be on a steady decline. in bagdad alone there is 16 blocks that the military cannot conduct operations despite they know that there is alot of al qaeda resources inside.
do i care if a bunch of people are killed by there own kind? a little but most suicide bombers are educated college students or graduates. the poor don't care about war they care about food and shelter, they aren't activists. i care that future leaders of america where killed at vt because they are our own.

[theurv.livejournal.com]

I would say that's fair if we weren't responsible for the extent of the mess in the other guy's yard. We executed Saddam for 148 deaths that he authorized- and in one car bomb in one day 118 died. And depending on your news source anywhere from a hundred to just over 200 people were injured. And that's one event on one day- there were other car bombings, IEDs, ambushes etc... And while I agree Saddam was no angel and was a bit of a bastard to be fair- it doesn't change the overall stability of society and number of average civilians hurt under his rule is less than what is present. He killed political dissenters, government men suspected of treason etc- but people could avoid that. You can't avoid a car bomb. We can't say that we don't need to care using the notion that it's their war when they didn't chose to have the war- we did.

[elbowmedic.livejournal.com]

we didn't chose the civil war that is going on there. rival factions are going after each other to try to gain control over the new found democracy. they use fear to sway votes. we as americans are there now to help support an emerging government. should we just up and leave and let the ones with the most money and bombs take over? where would the people of iraq be with a warlord in charge? to say that we chose to have iraqis kill iraqis is wrong our war was to take out a warlord and a terrorist.

[theurv.livejournal.com]

When there was no opportunity to gain power, there was no civil war. There were always differing sects of Islam, but there was no fighting when there was a warlord in charge: there was internal peace. By removing the warlord we created a void where leaders we needed, dissent was allowed and thus fighting ensues. By creating circumstances which allow for civil war- we are responsible for the fighting.