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marginalizing Sadr
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Both. And because the primary nature of target warrants all collateral damage attributed to the attack.
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This end-justifies-the-means stuff is bad juju, both for the sort of principled reasons that S_A_M is suggesting and because it's counterproductive in a practical sense. We don't just want OBL dead, we want a PR victory out of it. Bombing a hospital and announcing later that we've identified his DNA from tissue scraped off a brick in the crater is a much worse way of killing him dead than is sending in the Special Forces to try to bring him out alive, and then trying him.
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