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cokane
07/16/2008
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bojo1235: You obviously don't understand how the UN works, how peace-keeping missions work, or what international treaties are for (and why we abide by them). The point isn't merely that soldiers died, but that a considerable amount of misinformation was waged promoting war in Iraq to make it more favorable at the time, however less factual the accounts were. The fact is that a sovereign country was invaded, we diverted resources away from Afghanistan (prolonging war there), and started a 5-year war that was sold to us as a 1-year war. Whenever the administration was questioned on the validity of this claim, the questioners were repeatedly told that they were wrong and the administration knew best. This discredited the people who actually had it right to begin with, before the war in Iraq even started. This is all very well documented.
Soldiers in peace-keeping missions who are killed are doing their job protecting civilians in a conflict zone. There is nothing illegal about this happening. In fact in both military and policing conflict, this is a common practice that is not illegal (sacrifice of military or police to safeguard civilian lives). So how do you hold someone responsible for something that isn't illegal? I challenge you to actually come up with real facts supporting the conflict in Kosovo or the Rwandan conflict as being "illegal". Both were sanctioned by the UN, and both saw international military sacrifice (not just USA).
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