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[GAsux]

Is there ANY valid circumstances under which you could justify killing ANY civilians during a conflict? Probably very very few.

As I clearly stated, I'm not saying it's not a shame. However, once again, considering the nature of the battle that was fought, and the environment it was fought in, 3,000-ish is in all reality a pretty remarkable number. I undertand the desire to add emotion to the argument, but I'm saying from a strictly statistical standpoint, that's actually relattively unprecedented.

So far no one has made any sort of argument against the possibilty of any civilian deaths being caused by the Iraqis themselves. As if didn't happen. As if Iraqi militia didn't at any point intentionally or unintentionally kill Iraqi civilians. The United States has a tremmendous amount of technology and STILL ended up with "friendly fire" deaths. Do you suppose that Iraqi RPGS and mortars have "American only" rounds? And do you suppose that Dr.s who treated or saw civilian casualties were able to distinguish which injuries were caused by who?