Bernie,
I agree with most of what you posted. The people who have only came close to these situations by sitting in their chairs and watching the biased TV reports don't have any idea of what it is like to walk down a road and wonder if the kid or woman you just passed is going to pick up a gun and start shooting you in the back once you are past. This stuff really started in Korea, and then escalated in Vietnam and there will never be another nice clean war with drawn battle lines and enemy in uniforms. All militaries of all countries carry out things that should not be done. Personally in light of what I saw and what is going on in this world today, I favor the shoot first and then sort it out later policy. You are just as dead if some 10 year old girl blows you up with a grenade as you are if a 30 year old soldier in uniform does so. This is a war, though not one that i care much for and innocent people are going to be killed. Tell me, how many innocents have been killed in Iraq and how do that number compare to the people killed here every day in traffic accidents.
Ron
