Reply #3: We're willing to sacrifice 3000 Americans to avenge 3000 Americans. Except [View All]

[Brotherjohn]

... this little part: It isn't even avenging them. It isn't even getting the people who did it.

More to the point, it's "sacrificing" at least ten times that many Iraqi civilians (by Bush's OWN admission today) to accomplish, well... whatever it is we were supposed to be accomplishing there.

It used to be ridding Saddam of WMDs, then it was removing an ally of Al Qaeda, then... of whatever.

Even TODAY, Bush used this line: "So we gave Saddam Hussein the chance to disclose or disarm. And he refused" (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Bush_Text_2nd_Take.html)... when everyone knows DAMN WELL that he HAD DISARMED! He just freakin' sits there and tells bald-faced lies!

How many tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions... will end up dying so that we can "protect" ourselves against some hypothetical terrorist WMD strike that may or may not ever happen and may or may not ever kill (maybe) thousands or Americans?

This is why it has been a long-standing principle of international law and warfare (until Bush) to only attacked if you were attacked, or if there were an actual imminent threat of attack.