[Destined_Fate]

Thinking back... Had Lacus not stopped Kira he may have been able to save Fllay's father, she did delay him a great deal considering that they were already going into battle.

So if Lacus hadn't delayed Kira than Kira wouldn't have run into Fllay(Even if she didn't delay him anywhere near as long as Lacus did it was still a delay), the mechanic even tells Kira that he's late. By the time he gets to the Strike, Mwu had already launched and one of the battleships was sunk.

If Lacus had just stayed in her room than Kira may have been able to salvage at least the final battleship, but he was too late and by the time he arrived Athrun had already severely damaged the second battleship, which soon was sunk, and Mwu is soon forced to retreat since he was fighting alone for quite awhile and takes too much damage.

At least Fllay was smart when it came to using Lacus. Had the Archangel announced to ZAFT that they had Lacus than the battle would have ended immediately. So Murrue trying to keep Lacus out of the war because she was an innocent civie, despite who she is, ended up costing the lives of many good men and women and the sad thing is that they used Lacus later anyway, so the deaths of all those people were pointless.