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Old 03-11-2006, 08:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
Tipsy
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What is a WMD?
A weapon of mass destruction.

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Originally Posted by Venice_native
Fight fire with fire.

In the same analogy, it would be stupid to fight water with fire. So when a group of people harm a group of people, it wouldn't make sense to target only those responsible. That puts out the message "Hey, we can kill 2000+ civilians and they are only going to kill a few militants who are serving to die anyway".
I'm not saying only hold the person who pulled the metaphoric trigger responsible, hold the people responsible and those directly supporting them responsible. But going back the Iraq example, hold Saddam and his generals, cabinet, etc responsible, but not the everyday Iraqi who is just trying to get from day to day. Is it a two year old child's fault that Saddam isn't following the rules of the world has put out? The answer has to be yes for a lot of people because the biggest age group hurt by the economic sanctions were children.
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