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Originally posted by oleg:

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Originally posted by sachmo:
...But we will protect ourselves, and that's where things get ugly. I am an American, and I want my children to grow up and be safe. Whatever it takes.

So how many Iraqi children want you trade for one American? All of them ?

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How nice. An either/or fallacy with cynical appeal to emotion. Not to mention a bit insulting. Shall I ask how many Iraqi children you were willing to "trade" for "keeping religious fanatics in check" or similar?

If you really want to play the appeal to emotions/"what about the chiiilllldren" game, you might want to stop and think about a few things.

And why do you belive what US goverment is doing is actually protecting your chieldren ?

Because I don't expect barbarians to play nice. (No, I don't think the Iraqis are barbarians. They certainly were ruled by some until Last April. Al Qaeda and other Groups also fit that description.)

. o O(Why do I get the feeling someone's going to bring in the "well why didn't you go liberate some repressive nation arbitrarily chosen and preferably way out in some area that would take months to deploy to" claim? Wonder if they think WWII was illegitimate because we didn't bust open all the Gulags? Wonder if they're going to use that first claim, then say we don't have enough troops in Iraq? )