Sunday, June 15, 2003
War may have killed 10,000 civilians, researchers say. Believe what you will. I just wanted to draw attention to this paragraph:
Lieutenant Colonel James Cassella, a US defence department spokesman, said the Pentagon had not counted civilian deaths because its efforts had been focused on defeating enemy forces rather than aiming at civilians.
Great! So civilian deaths don't matter. So presumerably, if (and I think this needs stressing as even now we don't have proof, IF) Osama Bin Laden was behind the September 11th WTC bombing he should have put out one of his home videos saying "I don't understand why everyone is so worked up. By our reckoning we didn't kill anyone that day because our target was Hank Jones and it turned up afterwards that he'd slept in because his alarm clock didn't go off. Grrr!" Then he could have shaken his fist at the screen and gone back to his day job of trying to kill Penelope Pitstop.
Lieutenant Colonel James Cassella, a US defence department spokesman, said the Pentagon had not counted civilian deaths because its efforts had been focused on defeating enemy forces rather than aiming at civilians.
Great! So civilian deaths don't matter. So presumerably, if (and I think this needs stressing as even now we don't have proof, IF) Osama Bin Laden was behind the September 11th WTC bombing he should have put out one of his home videos saying "I don't understand why everyone is so worked up. By our reckoning we didn't kill anyone that day because our target was Hank Jones and it turned up afterwards that he'd slept in because his alarm clock didn't go off. Grrr!" Then he could have shaken his fist at the screen and gone back to his day job of trying to kill Penelope Pitstop.
