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03/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Iraq promises more suicide bombings"

I HATE TO GET ALL KLINGON HERE: But the Iraqi military and the regime itself have no honour. I always knew it, but the suicide bombing earlier today and the regime's response to it confirmed it yet again. Rather than consider the suicide bombing in Najaf an isolated incident, Iraqi's vice president says that they are official policy and there will be more.

I guess if your a brutal regime that considers the lives of your fellow citizens to be worthless, it's easy to see why. The coalition will be more careful dealing with people who appear to be civilians and it may prompt coalition forces to accidentally kill civilians, creating a propaganda victory for Saddam Hussein, assuming he's still alive of course. It also tells me that the use of chemical or biological weapons are now a certainty. Not only against coalition forces, but civilians as well.

Not that Taha Yassin Ramadan has any problems murdering civilians indiscriminately. He's the same savage who murdered his way through southern Iraq back in 1991 putting down the Shiite rebellion.

Perhaps I'm old fashioned. I realize that war is not a game of cricket, as Col. Saito told Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. There are "rules" governing a profoundly uncivilized act like war, but only western nations seem to respect them. Maybe that's why I just don't understand the savagery of the Ba'athist dictatorship. The lack of honour on the battlefield by the Iraqi military and the regime is just something beyond what I consider human.