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Iraqi girl with a serious heart condition gets treatment. (The start of the story can be found here; scroll down to "Days 11-16."

Anyone who still thinks American soldiers don't care about the Iraqi people can bite me.

Date: 2005-09-29 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mountainranger.livejournal.com
"it certainly does not show that our soldiers are any more or less human than anyone else"

Rather than kill or rape the girl, they helped her.

I am pretty sure that makes them more "human", depending on what you mean by human, than some other people.
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Date: 2005-09-29 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mountainranger.livejournal.com
I don't mean to assume that "the other side" would do that, if you mean the other side in Iraq.

I mean there America, and Americans, at least some of them, are still more noble than some other countries. There have been, as CMZ mentioned, mass graves. There has been a Holocaust. There have been prison/death camps (you can compare Guantanamo Bay if you wish, but I suggest that such a comparison would be ridiculous). There are suicide bombers. Haven't people been driven over by tanks in China in the past? And jailed for speaking against the government? And haven't certain cultures (Taliban, for instance) demeaned and oppressed women?

You can say the U.S. does similar things, or is -going to- in the future, but I'm just saying there are certain large differences in the United States' heritage and history as compared to most other countries in the world.
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Date: 2005-09-30 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mountainranger.livejournal.com
Slaves, yes, but even then people who wanted slaves didn't just want to collect them in mass to kill them.

I'm not very familiar with the Japanese thing; was it comparable to some of the practices I mentioned?

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