ah democracy isn't it beautiful

"Bush said an interim Iraqi president, prime minister and other top ministers should be selected in the next two weeks."

I have to curb this irony.

air strike kills 40

"Lt. Col Ziyad al-Jbouri, deputy police chief of the city of Ramadi, said between 42 and 45 people died in the attack, which took place about 2:45 a.m. in a remote desert area near the border with Syria and Jordan. He said those killed included 15 children and 10 women."

"In July 2002, Afghan officials said 48 civilians at a wedding party were killed and 117 wounded by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. An investigative report released by the U.S. Central Command said the airstrike was justified because American planes had come under fire."

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What is not justified? I mean if our booming planes and helicopters come under fire or hear gunshots how could any one argue that we are not justified in booming potential hostile targets. Sure it’s a tragedy that a bunch of people where murdered… but lets not look at the means it is the ends that are relevant. We are giving them freedom, liberation from and internal violent oppressive elements. Evil must be destroyed; destruction is the only response to those that would destroy.

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Just think how many weddings where secretly insurgent meetings… people organizing to kill the very Americans who are liberating them. These insurgents are people with such a basic hatred for freedom that they would attack the very people who are liberating them. We are nobly occupying their country and providing un-tangible amounts of freedom and equality for all Iraqis and they have the gall to point out a few our actions that have nothing to do with what we are doing there. As if the means of accomplishing anything have any relevance on the ends we strive for.
If we say we are giving them freedom then it is absolutely impossible that we have any other motives and that our actions have any other relevance.

Tell big media: ‘Stop bashing America and our soldiers’

Convenient morality at its best :)

The 'Soviet Russia Officials' could never understand why dissidents always focused on their wrong doing instead of the easily identifiable wrong doings of the governments they where 'helping'. It not that complicated your responsible for what you do.

It is much more important to know about the wrong doings of your government. Especially in a democratic system where we are collectively responsible.

Telling the media to ignore our crimes and focus on the crimes of others is the very definition of convenient morality.
Notice the same people (amnesty international etc), who where against the US support of Saddam are the same people against the US acts of aggression. It is convenient morality that condemns Saddam’s acts while simultaneously aligning themselves with the government regardless of how it acts. If they claim to be against Saddam the whole time I look forward to their alignment with the organizations such as amnesty international that criticize our current alignment with others that participate in these types of atrocities.

in reference to an image of Iraqi children celebrating some gifts from some soldiers

It's funny how images such as these are taken as morality barometers of the US invasion and occupation. As if an image of a group of Austrians welcoming their ‘liberators’ makes the ‘liberation’ the morally correct thing to do.
It does not matter if life is ‘better’ for every Iraqi if that ‘better’ is our interpretation of ‘better’ and not the efforts of the Iraqis to improve their own lives.
Our support of Saddam the sanctions (that helped keep Saddam in power) and the Invasion are all same in imperialist terms.
Its really simple… we would not want some other more powerful country say a fictional democratic France in the late 18th century invading us and killing us and the British and then showing us how to live ‘better’ with their version of democracy. Even if it was better then British rule it would it would be unearned freedom or liberation which is meaningless. Somehow that basic moral principal is lost with images such as those above.