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Had you acted in such educated manner when Bush was going to war...for the untouchable WMDs and the star link between the missing Ben and the crazy arab...There would have been no war to end today.
A question to the OP> What, exactly, is it you would have the president do? Zip on over and take personal command on the battlefield armed with overwhelming humanitarian aspirations? I'm thinking that the soldiers who tossed this 'hospital' had a good reason to do so. From their point of view anyway. The president cannot stop things like this from happening. It's utter chaos over there. Young men and women are getting shot at from all directions on a daily basis. Their reality does not extend beyond day to day survival. Lofty morality, revolving around what buildings are on or off someones 'target list' don't factor in and the president is not on the ground with them. Neither are the folks who would leap to judge their actions in combat. Whether or not we should be there is moot, we are, and we need to get behind OUR people.
KRAMERCAT, your status as a 9/11 Truther does not leave me hopeful that you will even bother to read the link I posted.
'go to Fox news to get BOTH sides of the story' - LOL that's the funniest thing I've read today.
As a 9-11 'truther' it shows that I have the intelligence to question when the laws of Physics no longer seem apply in this universe - something you obviously don't have the capability of doing.
A question to the OP> What, exactly, is it you would have the president do? Zip on over and take personal command on the battlefield armed with overwhelming humanitarian aspirations? I'm thinking that the soldiers who tossed this 'hospital' had a good reason to do so. From their point of view anyway. The president cannot stop things like this from happening. It's utter chaos over there. Young men and women are getting shot at from all directions on a daily basis. Their reality does not extend beyond day to day survival. Lofty morality, revolving around what buildings are on or off someones 'target list' don't factor in and the president is not on the ground with them. Neither are the folks who would leap to judge their actions in combat. Whether or not we should be there is moot, we are, and we need to get behind OUR people.
'It's utter chaos over there' because we are bombing willy nilly and racking up corpses. Who wants us there - not the Afgans. Who then - people like you? Is that a good enough reason to be there? I don't think so.
I'm sorry, I can no longer defend Obama's inactions - US forces now have attacked a hospital, what's next, an orphanage?
The plain truth is that we should have been out of Afghanistan several years ago. But Bush neglected it in favor of his made-up war in Iraq. Now, it's Obama's mess to clean up. It will have some nasty incidents all the way to the end. Clean up isn't pretty, but it's necessary.
One of my good friends was an Army Ranger. When he was in Iraq, his entire platoon or whatever it is called, leveled a childrens hospital because they "thought" someone was on the roof and going to attack them. They demolished the hospital killing pretty much everyone inside including dozens of children, doctors, and nurses.
My friend still has nightmares about it.
This was done under BUSH. In a war that should of never been started.
What happened at this hospital is nothing compared to that.
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I'm sorry, I can no longer defend Obama's inactions - US forces now have attacked a hospital, what's next, an orphanage?
