Posted by caraher on September 23, 2007, at 8:47:55
In reply to The Leader of the Free World, posted by Sigismund on September 22, 2007, at 15:06:51
> "If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic,” Bush said. “It's just -- I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective."
Every word is crafted for domestic consumption.
For many, it's axiomatic that whatever is done by the US or in the name of the US is good, right, just and moral. When "we" kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective we carefully refuse to track how often it happens (and view with righteous indignation the efforts to make estimates, since it's surely impossible that as many as a million Iraqi civilians have died in the process of being liberated from the "Butcher of Baghdad"). And we do it using legitimate means, such as helicopters, remote-control drones and artillery, not IEDs and car bombs. See, it's just collateral damage - it's not our fault if it turned out to be a wedding party! Our hearts were in the right place, if not our bombs and bullets...
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