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Originally posted by: oojason
As opposed to being compared to those (us - the West) who bomb cities and kill innocent civilians with bombs from planes at great heights?
Most of time when we kill civilians, its because they are around a military target. Also when we do it, we have some sort of goal in mind, other than merely killing innocent people. The terrorists intentionally aim at killing civialians for no more reason than to do just that, kill civilian and scare everyone. Also its very difficult to compare a nation deciding to attack another nation(an act of war) with a group of individuals who get together a decide to kill civilians(simple criminal murder). I won't blame you if you don't any difference between war and simple criminal murder. But still the fact that the west has bombed cities and killed innocent civilians does not mean that the innocent people who died on 911 and on 7/7 deserved to die. Sometimes there may be justification for killing innocents. I'm sure we killed innocent people we were fighting Nazi Germany. But if were unwilling to kill innocent peolple when for example we bombed Berlin, we would not have be able to stop Hitler. But, does than mean that the innocent people we killed in WWII deserved die? No. Merely that there was no other way.
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Originally posted by: oojason
Iraq had very little to do with terrorism at all before the west invaded - I still don't understand why people link the invasion of Iraq to stopping terrorism and 9/11.
The point is, Bushes major justification for the invasion was the supposed link to 911. If there was no 911, Bush would not have had his "justification".