actually powell and cheney wanted to finish off the republican army since the U.S. armored division had them sealed off and in their grasp, they destroyed 40% of the Iraqie forces in a single day and they felt they could have finished the rest within 3 days, but because of international opposition bush sr. ordered the withdraw. it is my opinion the failure of defeating the Iraqies at that time was a major failure and led to our delemma today, especially since the U.S. promised the Kurds protection, but insted they bailed on them, leaving them to be slaughtered by suddam and his armies and ultimately losing the trust of the Iraqie people. money may well have been the underlying motovator for the U.N. but they used the bloody mile propoganda to persuade other countries this battle is wrong and used it to gain opposition to the war from other countries. thats how it works politically. and the U.S. did want saddam at that time as he was wanted for war crimes then, just as he is today, or was I should say.
my point is you walk a thin line in killing civillians in any war, war footage of civillians have damaged efforts in the past, and it could in the future. you cant tell in that footage if its civillians or not, but it appears from the lack of defense, not. and these sheeps you speak of happen to be 70% of the british population as well as 45% of the american population if my memory serves me right? I remember over 100,000 people gathering at one time in san fran protesting in the streets against a war in Iraq.
obviously I am not against the efforts in the middle east, but in a democratic system the majority rules, if the majority of the people show opposition, then leaders have no choice but to react, remember the 4 dead in Ohio?
so my point, in order to finish this war achieving the objection of preventing WMDs in the middle east being produced and removing terrorist cells, 3 things need to happen.
1. we need our troops to remain in the middle east, and that means we need americans to demand they stay till its finished and we need the same from the international community as well.
2. we need to locate and destroy terrorist cells, their money and personell, the same goes for WMDs.
3. we need to give the people in the middle east a detourant to producing WMDs and forming terrorist organizations in the future.
instead of showing people how devistatingly accurate U.S. weapons are, the U.S. should be showing people how the deaths of so many people in this war are improving the lives for the people in the middle east and elsewhere? or soon enough the economic strain combined with the lack of productivity more people will oppose the war and it will ultimatley force the withdraw of military action without the mission being accomplished. when those sitting on the fence see footage of civillians being killed it could persuade them to go the other way?
guess I am just trying to say you may be shooting yourself in the foot while you are showing how you shoot others
