See the problem here is that war is horrible. Yeah people are going to get killed. As Izyan pointed out, muslims have killed hundreds of thousands of fellow muslims. If a militant tries to IED a US/Nato patrol and wipes out a bunch of muslims, yeah that's collateral damage. In war that happens.
The problem I have is the blind eye to the fact that most of the muslims killed by muslims were sectarian torture and killing. These people were kidnapped, tortured and killed. We're still finding mass graves where Alqueda in Iraq and other militant organization dumped their victims. This is as far from collateral damage as you can get and it far outweighs the number of collateral damage.
That is not part of war. That is what will happen when they are in control. Barbers in Baghdad were being shot. Unveiled women in Basra where being kidnapped tortured and killed. University professors slaughtered. You tell me that's war?
What happens when US soldiers push the militants out? Do the US soldiers start lining up thousands and thousands of people to be shot? No, people are allowed to rebuild their lives.
Yes war is horrible and people get killed, but its what your fighting for that counts.
Here's what's happens when the Taliban are in control.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Afgha...=/080713/481/01608240c66147208b2f5c8fdbdf3837
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Afgha...=/080713/481/d8d6ae4d1ad84cccae1cc498de6f1441
Brutal repression and doctrinal killing.
I was against the Iraq war, am a hardcore Democrat, want bush tried, but the simplistic equivocating and implicit support for these insane murderers by some of the people on this board makes me sick.