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Just as an aside: we're getting too hung up on the soldiers who have committed these acts. The fact is that even if a soldier is doing his job well, that doesn't mean the average person in Baghdad is going to feel it is fair enough if his family are wiped out by a bomb. To us it might be collateral damage: to them it is the wholesale slaughter of their nearest and dearest. In effect it must feel little different to the slaughtering of innocents by Saddam. When we bombed Baghdad back to the stone age; did we really think that ordinary people caught up in that bombing would welcome us? Might they not instead feel as if we'd dropped bombs all over their city? When one of our soldiers makes an understandable human error and mistakes a wedding party for a bunch of insurgents and bombs said party, might not the friends and relatives of those killed come away with an abiding hatred of us and our troops and see us as the enemy? Whatever our reasons for being there it was not at the request of the ordinary people of Baghdad: to many of them we were aggressors and our leaders warmongers. Even those who may have wanted assistance removing Saddam from his perch, doesn't mean they wanted their homes destroyed in the process. If you had a problem with rodents, and the exterminators blew up your house, you would not calmly thank them for ridding you of your rats. You might even throw something at them.
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