Quick. Hide the Bodies! (Updated)

Oh merciful heavens, some civilians have been killed in Iraq? Gosh, how could that happen? Up till last week the war was a pure, noble effort. Now it's tarnished.

Let's see... the pentagon gets to
a) confirm the number of deceased
b) and confirm their status as "enemy combatants."
How could that system possibly be abused?

If you think the two cases of Iraqi civilian deaths in the news this week are the first non-combatant murders, you can un-naive yourself here. The only question I have is after 5 years, what political intrigue occured, so that finally some civvy deaths could become "news."

Fortunately, Rummy has a solution: our army will be given an ethics course. The most impotent rejoinder since John Kerry redirected all election questions on policy with "I have a policy. It's on my website."

To recap
The conservative viewpoint: murderers in Texas deserve lethal injections, but murderers of non-white people who got in the way of our weapon-delivered freedom just require sensitivity training.

Update: Soldiers in case #1 cleared! Those bastard Iraqi civilians deserved it. Get out on your porch and wave your Muhrikun flag!

This war owes itself to the naive who can't imagine someone on our side is evil until they say "I'm the villain," and the opportunists, relieved that everyone knows never to say "I'm the villain."