"And I can't help but think that if they were Christian, they would loathe the idea of one innocent person being killed as were they."

You dumb son of a bitch!! Too many innocent people were are are being killed, maimed, their property destroyed, lives ruined. NONE of 'em had anything to do with 9-11, directly or indirectly.

And people like you are responsible, blood all over you, not just your hands. Innocent blood from innocent people.

You have the temerity to argue numbers - that the morality is better if it's 10,000 innocent people rather than 100,000 innocent people. Tacitly admitting in the process that there are thousands upon thousands of innocents slaughtered by the mightiest military in the world subjugating a Third World country it had been busy trying to starve to death for years.

And don't forget Afghanistan, that other splendid example of exporting liberty, democracy and freedom you folks love to cite, where the President says the Taliban is gone, and the military says they're on the run.

Lotsa innocent people have died and are dying there, too. For your reading pleasure, Bush's ego, and oil company profits.

One innocent person was too many. Decent people know that. They don't argue "only".

And the "democracy" bullshit. A foreign occupying army isn't necessary in a "democracy" except as defined by American conservatives, a definition certain dictators would recognize.

Arf