I don't mean to be flippant, but the fact is that ANY civilization that tolerates terrorists such as this is NOT "innocent." Those people smiling and firing guns in the air in Palestine did this every bit as much as the nuts who flew into the WTC. The Afghans are as guilty for CONSISTENLY harboring Bin Laden and others as is Bin Laden himself.
So is the Congressman willing to tolerate "collateral damage" to those who supported the act, but did not "pull the trigger?"
So, was it important we protect those innocent civilians at Hamburg, Dresden, and Cologne when we bombed them to stop the Nazis?
By the time the Allies bombed innocent Germans by the hundreds of thousands the Nazis were already beaten, bonehead. It was revenge, pure and simple, but revenge against those who were the innocents. If this is what you support, you are no better than those who bombed us Tuesday.