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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004
I can follow your logic to an extent 
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Think of it like this, with the death penalty as a punishment, there are alternative punishments which other nations such as ours believe to be suitable, such as life in prisonment (although in this country, a few years imprisonment appears to be more the case).
There are alternatives to the death penalty.
With an insurgent stronghold surrounded by civilians (as they are trained to do by Iran and Syria because of the negative image dead civilians give to the West), there is often no suitable alternative than to attack from afar, with the risk to civilian lives.
Where alternatives are suitable, they have been shown to be taken, such as the recent raid on a police station.
Rather than doing a nice safe airstrike, forces were used to take the building, and then destroy it.
Now, it's all well and good being armchair generals, and saying "yes but they could have sent in special forces" etc (not saying you in particular are doing that, because you aren't), but we don't have all the facts, the people calling the shots have more than we do, and they don't have all of them either.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Sorry, but no.
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Once again, you're wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun23.html
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The order is expected to last an additional six or seven months, until the first national elections are held.
The United States would draw legal authority from Iraq's Transitional Administrative Law* and the recent U.N. resolution recognizing the new government
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In Baghdad, U.S. officials have been engaged all week with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and national security adviser Mowaffak Rubaie. Both sides hope to finalize the terms before Bush leaves for the NATO summit in Istanbul at week's end, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
The administration is taking the step in an effort to prevent the new Iraqi government from having to grant a blanket waiver as one of its first acts
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*That'd be the law in Iraq at the time of the document, incase you didn't get that.