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'A January 21st Los Angeles Times Iraq piece by Ned Parker and Saif Rasheed led with an inter-tribal suicide bombing at a gathering in Fallujah in which members of the pro-American Anbar Awakening Council were killed. ("Asked why one member of his Albu Issa tribe would kill another, Aftan compared it to school shootings that happen in the United States.") Twenty-six paragraphs later, the story ended this way:

    "The U.S. military also said in a statement that it had dropped 19,000 pounds of explosives on the farmland of Arab Jabour south of Baghdad. The strikes targeted buried bombs and weapons caches.

    "In the last 10 days, the military has dropped nearly 100,000 pounds of explosives on the area, which has been a gateway for Sunni militants into Baghdad."'

100,000 pounds of explosives. My my my. Of course, it is absolutely and completely verboten to suggest in any way shape or form that 'our' tactics sometimes, in some ways, resemble those of Nazi Germany. The 'N' word is, as is well known, only to be applied to 'liberals', 'socialists' and 'communists'. (cf Jonah Goldberg).