How do we justify killing approximately 40,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.?

Question

No one ever speaks of this or seems to care.
These Iraqi people were attempting to live their lives, in their homes, in their cities, at their jobs, in their schools.......
Our bombs and missles and attacks have killed at least 38,000 innocent people. Many of them Christians. But no matter what religion this number of innocent people were killed.

Answer 1

There is never any justification to killing innocent civilians. It is an unfortunate happenstance when your country is at war. Why there is a war is a topic that you can argue far longer than I want to get in thank you. I do believe the U.S. should be there. We are the greatest nation the world has ever known and we should be a factor in the worlds development. Where would the world be if we didn't send troops to Europe after Hitler? We need to be involved in helping the world. No one ever thanks us for the Billions we send for Humanitarian efforts - and we need to be involved there also. Take care, Dan

Answer 2

While I agree that these innocent deaths are tragic I also think that it's important to look at the bigger picture...there are around 5 Million people living in Iraq today and all of those people will be better off in the long run without Saddam calling the shots...and that's just the Iraqis, the world in general will be a safer place when there is stability in that region of the world. This is a war and unfortunately people die in wars, all we can do is stay the course so that these deaths won't have been for nothing. My two cents anyway...

Answer 3

It's called war, man.

And until things change, that's the way it'll be. That's the way it's always been. If you throw a rock at me, I throw a bigger rock back at you.

Historically, when some of the people of a particular nation are launching attacks at another nation or people, in this case, largely the Arab Muslims launching terror attacks against the free world something must be done to make them stop. Point is, they will not stop on their own no matter how nice you are to them.

So see, we have what we have here. repeated terror attacks accumulating to the worst attack in American history. 9-11 over 3,000 of our people were killed, and it's about time something is done about it.

I for one don't believe were doing enough. I don't understand our open border policy in a time of war and until that is taken care of I question if we are even at war. I kind of doubt it.

So whats really going on? Good question. As for the 40,000 Iraqi civilians? Well what of the millions slaughtered in Africa in recent years which don't really make the headlines?

Answer 4

WAIT A MOMENT. You're looking at this all wrong.

The Iraqis have a democratically elected government. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the political process. However, the Islama-fascist mini-Hitler terrorists in Iraq like Al-Zarkawi don't want to share power. They want absolute power for themselves. They don't care about having a representative democracy.

The terrorists aren't being forced to fight. They CHOOSE to fight. Once Saddam was toppled, there was no legitimate reason for the Iraqi army or anyone else to fight our soldiers. We liberated them and immediately began the process of making the Iraqi government strong enough to govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.

We've made it clear that once the Iraqis can handle their own country, we'll be racing to our planes to leave. We have no intention of being an occupation force, but ironically the terrorists are forcing us to stay longer.

Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the terrorists.

Answer 5

there is no justification, only weak excuses and lies.

a long, long time ago, there was a country that had a government of the people, by the people and for the people. that country no longer exists as it was intended but was corrupted by special interests and greed. one of it's great presidents made a speech in which this quote was taken from.

"This government of the people, by the people and for the people, belongs to the people. If the people grow weary of the government, they may use their constitutional right to amend it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln

Answer 6

What about all of the people killed in the world trade center the pentagon, London, our troops over there doing there duty so you can have freedom there innocent to the people on the planes, World trade center the Pentagon they are innocent too. think about what that

Answer 7

i agree,in the beginning this war was right and justified,but now what r we fighting for...we lost site of what was our mission.it has become a war of "look at us big bad u.s" i only hope our soldiers over seas know we appreciate them and the job their doing...and as for bush....well we know where he can go...as for the innocent iraqi civilians....please forgive us

Answer 8

War = Death. There is no getting around it. Not that it is right or wrong it just is. We can't justify that what we do is correct, just as 911 for us. People get killed and that is life whether we like it or not. Hopefully when we die we will achieve peace. That is our only hope.

Answer 9

They say, "All is fair in love and war" That's the hard truth. I think war should be thought out very carefully. But that's not always the case.

Answer 10

Thats exactly the point. We don't mention it because we can't justify it. If we could justify it, then it would be mentioned instead of just mentioning US deaths.