By Patricia L Johnson

Intelligence reports indicated senior al-Qaeda leaders were meeting in the Lake Thar Thar region of Iraq on Thursday so we sent in the big guns…

When it was over and done with we killed "an estimated 19 terrorists and 15 civilians, wounding six and detaining one suspect."

I’m not sure if we’re estimating the fact they are terrorists, estimating the fact they’re dead, or estimating the number of dead,  but as usual our less than intelligent ‘intelligence’ leaves more than a little bit to be desired because the 15 dead civilians were six women and nine children.  The wounded consisted of two ‘suspects’, one women and three children.

Maj. Brad Leighton, the spokesman for MNF-1, stated "We regret that civilians are hurt or killed…" 

12 children were either killed or wounded yesterday at our hands, and the best we can come up with is "we regret".

The U.N. Mission in Iraq reported 88 civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes during the period from April to June.

Looks like we don’t particularly care how much collateral damage as long as we hit the target.  We may not care, but I’m willing to bet the Iraqi’s are going to be looking closely at the latest incident.

Pretty difficult to win the hearts and minds of the people when you’re killing off the children.