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Originally Posted by Confed999
Everyone allways has their own reasons to support or oppose everything, that's nothing new to this war. Here the official reason is still WMD and liberation. It is a valid reason, so there is no point in changing it.
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I have no particular problem with liberation. But i don't class killing people as liberating them. Artillery in cities is going to kill innocent people. We are killing more innocents in Iraq / Afghanistan than we have had killed by the fundamentalists.
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Originally Posted by Confed999
Then they weren't "moderates". Locate the enemy, and destroy the enemy.
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I think that is somewhat simplistic. The enemy has less information available to them than yourself, and what they have is more extremely biased.
We in the west (possibly not yourself) receive the news we want to hear. We buy the papers that have similar opinion to ourselves (Guardian left, Telegraph right, for example), visit "friendly" websites and watch / listen to the news programmes that more closely follow our opinion.
I have just got back from LA and was gutted that my hotel room didn't seem to have Fox News available. I hate the station's bias (admittedly i could be out of date on this), but that doesn't make it something that i shouldn't watch, otherwise i will just watch the stuff biased in my direction which confirms rather than challenges my understanding.
With all that in mind, it is easy for anyone to form a wrong opinion (including me though obviously we can be fairly sure i am always right
), be they moderates or even atheists who just don't like having their houses turned to rubble.