Editor: Baghdad police have reported that 56 civilians were killed by three U.S air strikes that took out seven insurgents in western Iraq near the Syrian border on Monday. The three attacks each dropped two to four 500-pound bombs on single houses. 40 civilians died in one house and 16 in another. That equates to eight civilians killed for each insurgent – an extremely profound ratio, don’t you think?
Is this an acceptable level of collateral damage? I think not.
Daniel Wells, Tracy