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dave
Show me where the command was "Kill all innocent civilians". Show me where civilians were the target.
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But of course. I believe the Pentagon actually has a website where it details exactly when army officers gave the commands to target civilians, since "We Murder Children!" is Rumsfeld's latest PR slogan.
Surely, a simple Google search will reveal dozens of detailed secret army documents showing civilian targeting. Right?
Come on, now. The decision to target civilians is taken in the field, the instructions handed down are often vague, and the individual action is made by the officers in charge.
Dresden was targeted for no purpose other than to intimidate and weaken an opponent, for absolutely no other military purpose. Civilians (refuges of war to a great extent) in the
hundreds of thousands were indiscriminately murdered for exactly that reason.
<a href="http://timewitnesses.org/english/~lothar.html">Dresden</a> took place, so did <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mylai.html">My Lai</a> and other massacres. Hiroshima was destroyed and innumerable people - the vast, vast majority civilians - were murdered because the alternative would have cost many American lives, too.
Do the names Arthur Harris or William Calley mean anything to you?
Civilians were targeted and killed in Iraq, <a href="http://www.iacenter.org/bombciv.htm">too</a>. What sort of proof can be presented? The US media was effectively prohibited from reporting accurately on the Gulf War, and on the War in Afghanistan. If there is another war in Iraq, you can be sure the media will be blacked out, again.
The lessons of Vietnam have been learned all-too-well.
War is hell. Civilians are targeted, because it convenient. Fear rules supreme. A fearful enemy is a defeated enemy. Basic lessons in military strategy.
X.
PS: Edit - corrected a spelling error.