Sunday, August 26, 2007
The joys of body count.
You can use whatever number makes you look good. Just like in this story from the AP.
Please tell me again why we are in Iraq.
The military said it dropped a 500-pound precision bomb on a house in Samarra on Sunday after a group of 30 masked men who fought U.S. troops escaped into the structure. City police and hospital officials said seven civilians, including five children, were killed.So it starts out with 30 masked men, then it becomes 5 driving to the house, where somebody found 7 bodies, including 5 children. Regardless of how many were killed, they were all AQI because they were dead in the house that was bombed.
Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, spokesman for U.S. forces north of Baghdad, said a gunfight broke out when the men ran into a house where U.S. troops were conducting surveillance. The group opened fire on the Americans, then escaped in a truck and were tracked by an unmanned drone above the city. They were seen darting into the house that was subsequently bombed.
Donnelly said there were U.S. casualties but he did not elaborate.
Master Sgt. David Rhodes, spokesman for the 25th Infantry Division, said the initial gunfight spawned “multiple engagements throughout the next several hours in the city as Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, attempted to apprehend the attackers.”
Toward the end of the fighting, the gunmen assembled in a mosque, then split up, with five of them driving to the house that was bombed.
“Air Force aircraft engaged with a 500-pound bomb destroying the house,” Rhodes said in an e-mail.
Please tell me again why we are in Iraq.
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