June 22, 2005
Eyeballing the Buhriz Body Count
without weapons/ with weapons
[kids playing soccer/ armed insurgents?]
~Certainly our highly-trained professional soldiers in Iraq, who are doing a terrific job in an impossible situation, would never resort to planting weapons on children they had just killed.
Would it be a perverse sign of progress if they had needed to do just that?
Or have our soldiers in Iraq always been under the closest scrutiny, not by the American press, but by the citizens of Iraq; preventing them early on in most areas from killing with impunity, making the planting of weapons more necessary? Perhaps in certain situations or places and/or among some units SOP?