"Our soldiers who are killed in Bint Jbail are also civilians."

"There is something fundamentally wrong with a war where there are more dead children than armed men."

- Jan Egeland

But what does he know. According to the leader of the free world, this war is a "moment of opportunity." In addition, it was just a mistake that all those non-militants were killed. Sorta like how writing 1+2 = 4 is a mistake. It understandably happens.

Enough of that. The following conversation is classic.

With all these briefings, how does it happen that 400 civilians have been killed in Lebanon?

Colonel A.: "There are 400 fatalities."

You don't accept the definition that they are civilians?

Colonel A.: "Our soldiers who are killed in Bint Jbail are also civilians."

posted by Lazarus, 9:51 AM