How many more Iraqis must die for our revenge? Greeley Excellent articl

How many more Iraqis must die for our revenge?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel12.html

November 12, 2004

BY ANDREW GREELEY


A recent report suggested that if one compares the number of deaths that usually occur in Iraq per year with the number since Bush's invasion, the cost of the war in dead Iraqis may be more than a hundred thousand human beings. Now Iraqi deaths don't count because they look funny and talk funny and have a funny religion. Besides they're Arabs, and we have a score to settle with Arabs because of their attack on the World Trade Center. Yet if we are able to sustain the number of deaths that have happened as a consequence of the invasion, we will soon have accounted for as many as Saddam Hussein did. That's a lot of dead Arabs -- and a lot of bereaved spouses, parents, children, other relatives and friends. How many before will we have to kill before we're satisfied with our revenge?

Someone might say that when leaders of a country have caused so many deaths that they might just deserve to be hauled before an international court of justice as war criminals -- especially if the war was based on false premises and conducted with an ineptitude that staggers the mind. It is an unnecessary, unjust, stupid, sinful war. The majority of Americans have assumed responsibility for the war. Therefore they share responsibility for all the Iraqi deaths.

I don't judge the conscience of anyone, leader or follower. I am merely saying that there is objective sin in the Iraq war, and our country as a country is guilty of sin. I'll leave it to God to judge the guilt, because that's God's job. I also leave it to God to judge whether there ought to be punishment for that sin. However, I think Americans -- so serenely confident that the Lord is on our side -- should live in fear and trembling about punishment.

The terrorists blew up the World Trade Center because they believed that the United States has done terrible things to Palestinians. The next explosion will be revenge for what we have done to Iraqis. We may not have been responsible for the plight of the Palestinians -- though very few Muslims believe that. We are certainly responsible for what we have done and will do to the Iraqis during the next four years of folly. God help us all.

another war where we occupied their country and called them "terrorists" for fighting our occupation?

If we're trying to occupy them and install our form of government and we have to fight them to let us do it....ummmm...isn't there a word for that?

At what point is the cost of "collateral Damage" losses and billions spent going to be enough to satisfy the the Red-Staters. Will it take 5000 U.S. Soldiers and Trillion$ to quench heir blood lust in the name of religious revenge for 9-11 and all the other things they hate?

Remember these are the idiots who can argue the Vietnam war could have been won if we pesky liberals hadn't gotten involved. They don't understand the intricacies of the Iraqi people or the Arab Nations in general. They think it is a s simple as good against evil. The reality is is more like every Christan religion in existence turning against one another and randomly practicing ethnic cleansing on each other. These religions are similar, but to them they all have glaring differences! They despise one another and are highly unlikely to ever want to create a system of government where they have to accept each other's differences and get along.