{"id":4292,"date":"2008-05-03T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2017-03-28T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:15:37","slug":"what-would-that-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/what-would-that-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What would that be like . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Garlasco helped target laser-guided bombs during the Iraq invasion, and he claims in an NPR interview entitled “Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq<\/em><\/a>,” that the military does a careful calculation of how many innocent civilians will be killed for each bomb dropped. According to Garlasco, they’re VERY careful. If more than 29 innocent civilians are calculated to become “collateral damage<\/i>,” they have to get White House approval.<\/p>\n

What would that be like . . . .<\/p>\n

FC [Field Commander]: Mr. President – we’ve got the 3rd highest ranking al’Qaeda commander in Iraq lined up in our sights, but if we bomb, we might kill more than 29 civilians. What should we do?<\/p>\n

W [Dubya]: 3rd highest? Didn’t we already get him?<\/p>\n

FC: Sir – this is the new, new 3rd highest in command.<\/p>\n

W: Oh, well that sounds serious. I hate to butcher so many innocent Iraqis everyday. On the other hand, maybe that madman will someday muster the capacity to kill more than 29 people, so … let’s bring Dick in on this … Dick?<\/p>\n

DC [Dick Cheney]: Look George, I thought we agreed that we were used to collaterally damaging Iraqi civilians by now, and that it’s worth it in our epic battle of good vs evil. After all, your predecessor set the precedent.<\/p>\n

W: Huh?<\/p>\n

DC: Remember the Leslie Stahl 60 Minutes interview with Madeline Albright<\/a>?<\/p>\n

[DEAD SILENCE]<\/p>\n

DC: Where she said the death of 500,000 Iraqi children in pursuit of U.S. foreign policy was O.K.?<\/p>\n

W: Ah, . . .<\/p>\n

DC: Here, look at this video again – – –<\/p>\n