Reply #35: I imagine the insurgents would benefit if a few kids got shot. [View All]

Think about it - why are there so many little kids doing this regularly enough that the guy on the video knows it's going to happen? Did someone send them out there as bait? It's not so far-fetched when you consider how they don't have too many problems finding people to be suicide bombers; getting a parcel of their own number killed for the benefit of advancing their strategy doesn't seem to be a problem for them. If we shot a bunch of kids - pretty incapable of truly understanding what's going on - for throwing rocks, we would have serious problems staying there. The justification that Saddam was killing so many people would start to sour, and they'd have to start coming up with a third or fourth reason that they started the war.