It's a sad day when some equate our troops to nazis and baby killers.
Don't you think that kind of rhetoric encourages the terrorists of whom we are battling, along with calling them "Freedom" fighters as some people are now doing?
It does illustrate the mindset of a few, and it almost seems as if it is their goal.

US Troops = Terrorists
Insurgents = Freedom fighters
Is there something wrong with that picture?

Did someone skip over my first post?
Why is it that the vast majority of Iraqis are glad we are there and support us?
Why is it that over 80% of our servicemen (And women) are proud of the good work they are doing there? Why are more soldiers re-enlisting so they can go back and continue to make a difference in so many people's lives?

You are right about good and bad perspectives of war.
For example you could focus only on the fact that hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and millions of people displaced from their homes as we crossed Europe and exploded "The bombs" on Japan in the 1940's.
Were we evil terrorist occupiers then as well?
Personally I choose the brighter side of things and living here in the East still speak English, not german, and our children are not slaves to a "Superior race".

Back to Iraq,
Isn't the individual and organization who explodes a bomb in a crowded market who kills a serviceman, along with several women and children the terrorist?
Or is it the soldier posted there for security?

A while back I heard about a soldier passing out candy to Iraqi children as they usually do, when a car drove by and tossed a grenade.
The soldier wasn't terrorizing the children, but he certainly was a threat to the person who tossed the bomb.
Would it be better the grenade tosser be in authority, as they used to be?

In another instance is the homocide bomber a terrorist or is it the person in authority who drives the bus? Many of those bombers were on Saddam's payroll

I've rarely seen any news reported from Iraq other than daily death and destruction from any major network and you are right- there seems to be a boycot of any good news.

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