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javasaurus ([personal profile] javasaurus) wrote2004-04-07 12:21 pm

This is really bad. Iraq

American helicopter attacks mosque filled with civilians. 40 dead.

WTOP story

[identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com 2004-04-07 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
heck, consider the most famous case of soldiers using a church as a base of operations for military action: The Alamo.

now, mind you, Santa Ana at least spared the civilian women and children and all that, but it was still techincally a church mission being used as a military base.

Of course, maybe that makes us today worse than Santa Ana then, because he spared the non-combatants and we just bombed the heck out of this thing outright. maybe.