[wtc911]

Every "insurgent" killed in Iraq is, by definition, a civilian....

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Ever hear the term Enemy Combatant? Pick up a gun and you are no longer a civilian.

And there is much more going on between Chechnya and Russia than the islamic terror war that we are dealing with in our fight.

Oh, and Russia has a history of leaving mass graves in its wake.

[jb6]

So did we, or have you forgotten our last major insurgent wars, on our lands: the Indians. Congress' Indian Solution: surround the village, bullets for the men who resisted, sabers for everyone else. Kill the buffalo so the Indian will starve. Hell, the couple of million that still remain still don't own their own land, it's still controlled and "managed" by the Officer of Indian Affairs, over 100 years since the last Indian wars.

As for Vietnam, there were plenty of atrocities that went on. That's what happens when you put half trained conscripts into such a situation. This is the exact stupidity that the Russians are doing.