And From the My Lai Book of Great Excuses...

This week, the press reports that an all night bombing raid by the USAF in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan killed 60 Taliban fighters and at least 15 -20 civilians. The incident has raised the concern that the civilian death toll will rise as the US slowly switches to a strategy of air strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defending the latest air strike, the President stated that " We really cannot take responsibility if you happened to be feeding your goats in the same barn as someone we thought might be a Taliban fighter. The problem with the Taliban is that many of them are civilians and fit into the civilian population. This problem is made worse because civilians too, often attempt to blend in to the civilian population. We cannot be held accountable for differentiating civilians from civilians particularly when the group we are fighting is made up of cilivians."