CNN.com - Investigators pick through London carnage - Jul...
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I feel bad for the people of London and feel that we should show solidarity with them. I can relate to them, I've been there, and a few of my ancestors were from there.
On the other hand, I feel bad for the innocent civilians killed in Iraq, though not as much because the images of their sufferings are usually censored by the military and/or media (out of sight, out of mind). The most conservative estimates put the figure of civilian deaths at about 30,000, but it could be as high as 100,000. That's more people that died in 911, the madrid bombing, and the london attacks combined. At least 90% of these people would be alive today if we had not attacked iraq.
Clearly both sides of the terrorism war believe that violence must be used to achieve their aims and that innocent deaths are acceptable.
I don't think that is necessarily wrong, but it might be. It would definitly be easier to tell the good guys from the bad guys if one side wasn't killing innocent people in mass.
