going back to the Geneva convention issue...I dont believe it would apply here...the Iraqi population is...for the most part...culpable in the actions of their leaders...especially those in and around Baghdad...but still, I do believe that if there is a way to NOT kill civilians that we should take that route...if however taking that route endangers our troops and our people that taking a more severe course of action is called for...and non of this falls under "mass-murder" as you call it...no more so than the bombing of London, bombing of Berlin, bombing of Hanoi, Tokyo, Seoul, etc., etc., it is simply part of war...