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"...killing at least six fighters"

how would they know ? It oculd have been a children's school or another wedding party and the bodies would look just the same when seen from space by the spy satellite.

I'm afraid the constant claims of infallibility that defy the evidence of mistakes and mis-identification tend towards making one somewhat cynical about US claims of who or what got hit in any of their missile strikes.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 04:50:51 PM EST
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it means they were terrorists, otherwise they would have been there.
Just like poor people deserve all they get (or rather, all they don't get)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 06:09:01 PM EST
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US admits soldiers killed innocent Iraqis

Better late than never, I guess.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 07:55:46 PM EST
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And the Obvious-as-Hell award goes to the US Army!
by ATinNM on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 08:15:28 PM EST
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