take a look at this - this is real life, not politician's rh

[mentalbunny]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/iraqiboysoldiers.jpg

This is who a war with Iraq will affect. Do you still think it is right?

[reagan lives]

So your point is that the current Iraqi regime slaps uniforms on 12 year olds and gives them automatic weapons. I guess we should leave them alone then.

[new democracy]

that's not the poinet, rl. the poinet is that it will be unhuman to bomb children.

[new democracy]

and to me it is look like bush is trying to get sadam only because he want that the american people will forget bin laden.

[Xvall]

So your point is that the current Iraqi regime slaps uniforms on 12 year olds and gives them automatic weapons. I guess we should leave them alone then.

According to your government; every citizen has a duty to their country, which would basically put them at a soldier-like status. Therefore I could claim that you're regime is slapping on the role of defending liberty, and say that it's okay to kill those little faux-patriot kids out there, claiming that they are enemy combatants. Right? If I see them like a threat, just as you see Iraq as a threat, I should be allowed to shoot them.

[reagan lives]

I'm sorry Drake, I really don't understand what you're saying. I honestly don't know what you mean by "faux-patriot kids." Do you mean the kids in the picture? What do you mean by "see them like a threat?" Do you mean if you were a soldier in the field and one of them pointed an AK at you? I don't know what I would do, but no matter what happened I would hold responsible the body that put children out there in the first place, in the same way that I would blame anyone who uses any child as any sort of shield.

On thing I can respond to is this: "every citizen has a duty to their country, which would basically put them at a soldier-like status." Are you sure you mean that? Anyone who has any duty to his country has "soldier-like status?" Think about that one. "A duty to their country" sounds pretty ambiguous to me, and this duty can take countless forms besides for military service. If every person who fulfills an obligation to the government is a soldier...so there are no taxpaying civilians. Honestly Drake, I'm not messing with you here, I really don't think I understand what you meant in that post.

[Xvall]

Yeah, sorry... I just got the damn internet and this was the first thing I stumbled across. It was just a rant, because I didn't like your response. I don't think it's right to kill any kids.

[mentalbunny]

Well I know it's due to the iraqi regime that these kids are in uniform, but that doesn't give us a right to barge on in there. Do you not remember that in the gulf war some americans found a load of iraqi soldiers heading back to bahgdad (sorry, can't spell) who were perfectly harmless, and proceeded in massacring them all, when they could have followed them back and got saddam there and then.