Stupidity – “To do the same thing over and over and expect different results”
I never understand it when people that supported the war get all up in arms about war atrocities. It’s as if these moraly gifted individuals do not understand the concept of causality, except when it comes to demonstrating to the world, “if you kill one of ours, then we will kill 1000 of yours.” I understand that tensions were high on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of 9-11, but even I “average American guy” understand that war is a horribly violent vehicle for moral misjudgments. As you will see in the following statements most understand the dangers of war, but why is everyone so surprised when Marines serving 3 and 4 tours consecutively loose it and start acting as if they have little to no regard for moral civility? If you voted for the military action in Iraq Senators then you must understand this outcome is not unexpected.
Senior U.S. Republican Senator John Warner vowed to hold hearings on atrocity allegations against Marines in the killings of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians last November. A case some U.S. media have compared to the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
“I can assure the American public … as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, I’ll do exactly what we did with Abu Ghraib.”
Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette said that what she finds horrible is “the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners…”
Jon Kyl of Arizona – “Bush had been a consistent and committed leader of the Iraq war.” Of its critics, he said, “hand-wringing does not win wars. War is tough and there are casualties and just before victory sometimes it gets most violent.”
Senator Robert Byrd – “To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences,” Byrd began. “On this February day, as the nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet, this chamber is, for the most part, silent-ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing.”
