There have been quite a few photos like this recently after so-called "precision" strikes. The story this time is that the safehouse was loaded with ammunition. That may very well have been the case but the end result of such "precision" strikes includes civilian deaths. If we have any hope of winning over the locals, killing them is not helping our cause. The US is surely using such tactics to avoid US casualties which are havivng an impact on the US election cycle, but the message to the Iraqi people must be that their lives are worth considerably less than the occupiers. Iraqi casualties have shot up in recent weeks and we are no closer to victory. For a guy who likes to think that he stands firm in his beliefs, he is being kicked around a lot by US domestic politics in his war in Iraq. Remember how he pulled back, twice, from Falluja because of political issues in the US such as the GOP Convention? This guy is flapping in the breeze right now, changing on a daily basis depending on what his advisors think will help him get elected. Talk about a wimp. Where's the conviction?
