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i remember sept 11 vividly. and a friend of mine from school died in one of the towers, so please don't preach to me about that.

we need to destroy the REGIME, without destroying the country. that is my point. hopefully our president feels the same way.

A different reaction from others in Iraq:

From MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/868002.asp?0dm=C24CN

No official government statement was released, but Bushra al-Samarai, a member of the Iraqi National Assembly said Iraqis sent their condolences to the American public.
"We are people who love other people, al-Samarai said. We respect [American] feelings and share their sadness over this tragic incident."
National Assembly speaker Gen. Ghalib Jassim also voiced sympathy for the space shuttle tragedy, but with a reminder that Iraq feels under siege from the same stricken America.
"We are friends for the American people, said Jassim, a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. We don't have anything against the American people as people. The problem is between us and the American administration."

Some of you should really sit back and think about what you're saying. Turn an entire country to glass because the few in power are madmen? By that logic, someone should've nuked the US a long time ago for the stuff that our government has done (without popular support of the people) in the past and continues to do now.

I'm no peace-loving hippy or anything. Take the regime out of power, don't kill the innocents. Otherwise that makes us no better than the people responsible for the tragedy on 9/11.

Why do you guys think we build more and more accurate weapons? It's far cheaper to carpet-bomb the [censored] out of a target with thousand-pound iron bombs than it is to send 2 multi-million dollar pieces of ordinance that are more exact. The goal is to 1) hit the target and 2) do it with minimal collateral damage. You know how cheap a thousand-pound iron bomb is?

The whole purpose of war is to remove the ability of your enemy to do what they continue to do despite you telling them not to. (at its most basic level). This can mean killing, disarming, destroying weapons or just demoralizing them.

Am I pissed off that one guy said they were 'Happy' that Columbia blew up? Hell yes. But understand that from their perspective, /we/ are the bad guys. I'm sure we'd be cheering if Iraq had a space program and lost some astronauts when their craft blew up on re-entry too. Try putting the shoe on the other foot. Be angry, but don't be rash.

When we're (safely?) a few miles outside of Baghdad, and Saddam plans to let loose the poison gas (on his own citizens and troops, to the degree the Republican Guards and his special cadre would not have chemical suits)... how about we pull the neutron bomb out of mothballs??? All the buildings are saved so we don't have to rebuild infrastructure, no fused glass to clean up. His own populace would have been poisoned by him anyway, and his family/troops/power structure gets to see how their bunny suits don't work on radiation.

let the dc snipers have at him, then tell them to stay over there.

how about capture him and then release him
to the kurds in the north or the shi'a in the south