And you thought he was acting when he made all them cowboy and injun movies?

I seriously doubt any allied commander said 'right lads, today we will seek out and blow up innocent children', unfortunately there will always be unintended casualties in war, the difference is that Saddam INTENTIONALLY gassed the Kurds. The two are not the same.

You can try and justify it anyway you desire mate.
The allies were responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands depending on varying reports) of innocent women and children by the military action undertaken.
If you want to appease that FACT then that's your perogative.

It still doesn't mean the two facts should be equated. 20,000 French civilians were killed during the D-Day campaign. It doesn't mean that that equates to the same evil as the Nazi's murdering 20,000 Jews in the city of Pinsk.

I wasn't trying to appease or justify, just pointing out the difference between collateral casualties and a direct attack aimed at killing a certain group of people. I am sure that the pilots who have dropped bombs will feel terrible about any innocent casualties, Saddam and his henchmen didn't give a damn.

At least the families of the collateral damage can take solace in the fact they weren't directly attacked.

Ok.

To some, yes.

How are those bomb pilots more innocent than Saddam's men? I'm not sure what the repercussions would be for men not following Saddam's instructions but I bet it was far worse than what US/UK soldiers would face if they refused orders. Given Iraq's consistent human rights violations over the decades I'm probably even underestimating that. I doubt US/UK bomber pilots operated under the same amount of fear and stress yet they are able to still justify this? Isn't that just as cold-blooded a killing?

Don't take the righteous justification away from them otherwise their totally fooked.

They'll have nothing else to cling too.

Today in history - 31st December 1984 Rick Allens car accident ultimateclassicrock.com/def-lepp ... rash-1984/

Today in history - 31st December 1984 Rick Allens car accident ultimateclassicrock.com/def-lepp ... rash-1984/

20 years ago tonight the rlORACLErl teletext service disappeared from our TV screens

rl150 years ago today - The Emancipation Proclamationrl

Not quite as altruistic as it first appears

[i"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either to save or to destroy slavery, If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it"[/i - Abraham Lincoln

Aye. He was a bit of a racist but I don't think that's mentioned in Spielberg's film.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a shrewd political move which ensured no European powers were going to enter the war on the side of the Confederacy.