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Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 04:55 PM

    @moon6pence

    I know I am innocent because I did everything I knew how to convince everyone I knew that GWB should not be president ever. And I did every thing I could to convince people not to go to war. I called my congressmen too. This may be a democracy, but the people have very little power. Our government has been corrupted. We have no control.

    Violence ruins people. From soldiers to police, it is the same. It doesn't matter what the initial intention was, the evil takes over and ruins even the good people. How do we stop it? Like quitting smoking, or losing weight or any other bad habit, we just have to stop. Period. It probably wouldn't hurt to end the violence in the media, but we have about as much chance of doing that as we do of ending smoking or obesity.

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