Reply #16: In addition to what Goldstone said WRT the USA.... [View All]

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/25/60minutes/main3411230_page2.shtml

Marc Garlasco of HRW said...

"There's this macabre kind of calculus that the military goes through on every air strike, where they try to figure out how many dead civilians is dead bad guy worth," says Marc Garlasco, who knows the calculus of civilian casualties as well as anyone.

At the Pentagon, Garlasco was chief of high value targeting at the start of the Iraq war. He told 60 Minutes how many civilians he was allowed to kill around each high-value target -- targets like Saddam Hussein and his leadership.

"Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that's not a problem," Garlasco explains. "But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld."

Garlasco says, before the invasion of Iraq, he recommended 50 air strikes aimed at high-value targets -- Iraqi officials.

But he says none of the targets on the list were actually killed. Instead, he says, "a couple of hundred civilians at least" were killed."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/25/60minutes/main3411230_page2.shtml

One standard for the rest of the world vs. one standard for Israel.

That's apartheid.