Those photos are terrible indeed, and the implication behind posting the link here (and obvious point stated on the site) is that this war campaign ought not be happening.  I agree that it is horrible what happens in a war, and I deplore civilian deaths, but . . .  I just don't understand what the better alternative to this war was to be.

Diplomacy?  With the Baath Party?  Impossible.  Those people have never dealt honestly with anyone.  They only understand the language of power, and when they had it, they used it to systematically torture, rape, gas, and otherwise destroy and/or intimidate the Kurds, the Shia, and who knows how many others.

Children are dying by the score--many of them ten year old boys armed and trained by those Baath Party butchers, then sent off on a fool's errand to fire at coalition troops.

Iraqi civilians are being kept from evacuating cities and towns by Baath party thugs who shoot at them indiscriminately.

Iraqi weaponry is being kept in schools and hospitals, not to mention mosques, only to be dragged out and used later.  So who are the brutal bastards intentionally putting those children and patients in harm's way?

Yes, it is terrible when children and other innocent civilians suffer from war's brutality.  But would it have been better to have left that regime in power, free to continue its reign of terror, torture, and ambitions of taking over other states & developing nuclear weapons?

This is all very unsettling, and I am unsettled by it.  But I can't help thinking that the grim necessity of war in this case was brought to the world courtesy of those Baath Party bastards.  I am certain that someone here can tell me just how wrong I am.

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