The military repeatedly lies about bombing children but Iraqis know better

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Hospitals: 10 dead from Falluja airstrikes

U.S. military says 'intelligence' indicates no civilians at targets
Saturday, October 2

FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes in Falluja in the past 24 hours have killed 10 Iraqis and wounded 16 others, including several children, according to hospital officials.

The U.S. military described one of the airstrikes in the eastern part of the city as "a precision strike on yet another confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist site" and insisted only terrorists, not civilians, would have been killed. Al-Zarqawi is a Jordanian-born militant linked to al Qaeda who is responsible for a string of insurgent and terrorist attacks.

However, video and still photos of the scene -- shot by Reuters and Associated Press photographers -- showed two young children's bodies being pulled from the rubble.

A strike Saturday night killed one and wounded four, Falluja General Hospital officials said.

Precision Strikes:

Residents look for survivors amidst the debris of houses which were flattened in U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, Iraq , early on Monday, Oct 4, 2004. In rebel-held Fallujah, American warplanes unleashed strikes on two houses early Monday, killing at least 11 people, including women and children, hospital officials said. The military, which regularly accuses hospitals of inflating casualty figures, said the strikes targeted followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and their associates.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)



Local residents stand amid the debris of houses flattened in U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, Iraq , early on Monday, Oct 4, 2004. In rebel-held Fallujah, American warplanes unleashed strikes on two houses early Monday, killing at least 11 people, including women and children, hospital officials said. The military, which regularly accuses hospitals of inflating casualty figures, said the strikes targeted followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and their associates.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)



Residents look for survivors amidst the debris of houses which were flattened in U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, Iraq , early on Monday, Oct 4, 2004. In rebel-held Fallujah, American warplanes unleashed strikes on two houses early Monday, killing at least 11 people, including women and children, hospital officials said. The military, which regularly accuses hospitals of inflating casualty figures, said the strikes targeted followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and their associates.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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1. Oh, yeah, *that's* the way to do it

Lie to the Iraqis about whether there were civilians killed. They can't count their own relatives!

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2. Making friends and influencing people. I am sick and tired of people

making me and mine a friggin target for someone else by doing stupid shit in other countries. Yeah... that includes most of the neocons and all of their sellouts.

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3. Isn't this a GD topic?

Just asking... we seem to be getting a lot of cross-pollination these days.