A question about supporting American troops....?

Question

According to the John Hopkins University study, 46% of Iraqi civilians killed by American troops were under 16 years of age.

Can support for American troops be considered tacit support for the murder of children...?

Answer 1

You don't know how biased your question is, do you?

Have you forgotten the other side of the coin? Let me help you with this, since it seems difficult for you to comprehend:

What % of people killed by terrorists are civilians?
What % of people killed by terrorists are under the age of 16?
What % of people killed by terrorists are killed in unprovoked attacks?
What % of people killed by terrorists are non-Muslim?
What % of people killed by terrorists could be prevented if the US engages them in the field?

By supporting liberal causes, are you supporting terror?
By supporting liberal causes, are you supporting indiscrimminate murder?
By supporting liberal causes, are you offering tacit support for murder based on pure bigotry?

Now, in case you didn't know, John Hopkins University is incapable of disseminating this information accurately. There are five pieces of the puzzle missing that I can think of, and perhaps more:

1--Out of those under 16 killed by American troops, how many were being held hostage by terrorists when being fired upon?

2--Out of those under 16, how many were actually fighting the Americans?

3--Out of those under 16, how many of them were actually killed by terrorists, not Americans?

4--Out of those under 16, how many were killed by Iraqi anti-aircraft fire at the beginning of the invasion when the anti-aircraft shells returned to the ground?

5--Out of those under 16, how many were killed as a result of terrorists kidnapping Iraqi citizens and holding them hostage in trade for other Iraqi's acting as insurgents and suicide bombers?

You see, I have been exposed to intelligence reports offered daily to the troops in field, so I can recognize these things. The numbers I've asked for are not available, and that's how people like you are duped by university studies like this one.

If you are no longer able to conduct this level of reasoning, you have abdicated your own brain to liberalism and have become their "useful idiot". You deserve all the ridicule you get when you come out on the side of terrorists rather than US and coalition troops.

Answer 2

i'm not a Muslim-American and that i don't help American troops. Our troops did not and don't take care of our native land. All they continually do are invading different sovereign international locations and kill harmless human beings. Why could every physique help mass murderers?

Answer 3

I will always support the American Serviceman or woman. I only wish politicians would untie their hands.
The only thing the Iraqi people understand is brute force. That is what they should receive from our military. We need to quit trying to win their hearts and minds and kick their azzes, big time. They need to learn first hand how Gen. Sheridan and Sherman won the Civil War and the Indian wars. Brutal brutal force without regard to civilian and non-combatant population.
The problem is that we are too timid and civilized to win this war.

Answer 4

this question is an intresting one... im in the military participating in a combat MOS (infantry) ive seen my share of action.

first i suggest you enlist and come over here yourself. "civilians" is a lose term here.

1) no uniformed enemy
2) they fight from the rooftops and behind corners wearing civilan dress. they fire a burst or an RPG and ditch it take off and dont stand up and fight.
3) most of these "civilans" are combatants

ive seen lots of things well fighting over here. but i have never taken a human life with out having justifaction to do it. ive seen what happens when these "civilans" try to stand up and take us on. in 30-40 minutes of fighting in one day we had 23 confirmed kills of hostile terrorists. most of them looked like kids. they came at us stupidly we had the tactically supeour postion located from a roof top. after the battle was over we found 23 bodies and enough blood trails for lots more. among these there werent very many weapons. they police up there wounded and dead as they run off. now this was from half a squad of soldiers with Bradley IFV in support. we knew we were being attacked because an RPG bounced between the track i was in and the one behind us. as we searched we found no launchers.

Answer 5

You are really putting a spin on this that sounds almost like the truth, a sixteen year old with a weapon can kill an American Soldier as well as a fifty year old. Do you really expect our troops just to stand there and be killed, ridiculous. They need to defend themselves and I am glad they do. I support our American Troops and I am proud of them.

Answer 6

So how about all the ppl they killed in America. They were not all in the Military. Are we to forget about them! Yeah it sucks that kids are dying over there but they are killing them too! Think about the ppl in America that have suffered b/c they like to blow things up! Tell them to stop using bombs and we will stop.

Answer 7

I support the US ARMED FORCES OF THE USA and this study is a fraud put out by a
liberal University that is Anti-Military and Anti-
American!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

We can't morally and ethically be supporting our Troops if we only see them as fighting vehicles for sacrificing their lives for ours, and not see them as actual human beings with human feelings with human consequences to face, and human losses and disadvantages to be suffered.

Answer 9

1st of all, Hopkins is a Liberal College.........2nd consider the youth of Iraq as being their front line troops ( Insurgents) Majority of their Army aged males are dead. Age has nothing to do with the ability to fire a gun, rocket or blow up a bomb....

Answer 10

are these numbers representative of suicide bombing attacks?
How about the videos they proudly display of 4, 5,6,7, year olds wearing bombing devices.?
Please post a link to the information you posted, i would be very interested in knowing the source of such a stat.