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When is an accidental civilian death not an accident?
When the Air Force asks permission first. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has rules for killing civilians. But do the rules actually save lives?
By Mark Benjamin [2007-07-30]

  • Generations of US Wars

    In WW II, we bombed like crazy. Killing German and Japanese grandmas and little kids was okay. It was patriotic. In the 1960s and 1970s, killing Vietnamese grandmas and little kids was okay. John McCain himself killed many Vietnamese grannies and kids.

    Now, 2007, we must give the US Air Force a certain amount of credit. They are trying to limit their grannie-kill. But the only reason they do it is that we are watching.

    Otherwise, they might nuke the whole Iraqi and Afghan populations, for their own good. You can't trust these foreigners, so you mght as well kill them.

    Please keep watching!

    Do you remember that god-awful story, early on in Afghanistan, when American Air Force guys machine-gunned an Afghan wedding? And they killed the bride and her dad, plus most of the dear little-kid cousins on the wedding dance floor?

    Hail W. Bush! Hail Mighty Conqueror!

    -- timbuktom
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    Sunday, July 29, 2007 08:27 PM
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