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Post by townhalleditor on Nov 26, 2012 14:27:30 GMT -5
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Post by TW on Nov 26, 2012 14:56:07 GMT -5
To gain enough support in Congress to start a war is difficult for a President, because they usually need some support from the opposite side of the aisle.
The 4 point reasoning that Bush Sr. offered made sense to Congress,
My concern is if we decide to withhold support of Presidential reasoning, because we feel deception, we hold ourselves in a position where the enemy would have first strike capability against us.
As far as civilian deaths, it's a serious problem, but I find it very difficult for anyone who hasn't served in combat to have a clue how chaotic things are. It's a constant situation of kill or be killed, and when a rifle shot, or grenade, is launched from a building, and their are a hundred innocents in that building, and 5 bad guys, it's the fault of the bad guys when the building gets blown up, because they intentionally used the innocents as human shields.
If you want to hold people accountable, hold the soldiers siding with those who used the shields responsible, and try them for causing the deaths. Don't blame it on the soldiers trying to capture an objective, and fearing for their own lives.
I fear we would have lost access to the Panama Canal, and that Noriega would have become a Soviet tool had we not taken him down.
He had become a total dictator, and was already talking with the Soviets.
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