unpatriotized history:

The most accurate overall description of what US troops do in Iraq is kill, not die.

unpatriotized history:

The US project is to target the Iraqi citizens and dominate their country.

Ordinarily, we don't criticize a conquest and targeting of the citizenry by saying it's "unnecessary." No sane person would criticize what Indonesia did to East Timor or what the US military did to the American Indians or what the fascists did to the Jews, Roma, Chinese, communists, and so many others in the 1930s and 1940s as "unnecessary". To say something is "unnecessary" is to say that it isn't a conquest and mass killing of the nonsubmitting population.

unpatriotized history:

The most accurate overall description of what US troops did in Vietnam is kill, not die.

unpatriotized history:

The US project was to target the Vietnamese citizens and dominate their country.

Ordinarily, we don't criticize a conquest and targeting of the citizenry by saying it's "unnecessary." No sane person would criticize what Indonesia did to East Timor or what the US military did to the American Indians or what the fascists did in the 1930s and 1940s as "unnecessary". To say something is "unnecessary" is to say that it isn't a conquest and mass killing of the nonsubmitting population.