AP IMPACT: study suggests drones kill far fewer civilians than many Pakistanis believe

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27. It's always easy to think the way you do if you

Aren't psychically informed. When the war in Vietnam was waging, I opposed it and my friends opposed it because there was a huge part of our inner consciousness that said, "Jeez Louise, what if I had been born in the hills of Vietnam instead of Chicago?"

And that is my take on all these wars as well. What if it was you, limpyhobbler, whose teenagers had been at a wedding and been blown to smithereens by one of our drone attacks. How would you feel then?

And there will always be bad guys. However, when our military action called "Shock and Awe" was waged upon the Iraqi people at large, starting in late March 2003, the Iraqi people had not done anything to us at all. Ten years later, and we have seen events unfold at Abu Gharib, we have witnessed as four millions Iraqis have fled the country with over six hundred civilians dead there. And we Americans don't even see a corresponding lowering of our gasoline prices at the gas pumps, in exchange for all this carnage. (Though apparently, Shell Oil will be doing quite nicely.)

I would personally rather our military took out the "bad guys" on Wall Street and escorted them off to jail, to join Maddoff in the Chow Line. Instead, these bad guys are sitting around deciding how to spend their billions of dollars of Christmas holiday bonus monies.