I missed Cato the Youngest's excellent fisking of the Peanut Man's NYT screed while I was wrassling the Apache.
"The war's weapons must discriminate between combatants and noncombatants. Extensive aerial bombardment, even with precise accuracy, inevitably results in "collateral damage." Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, has expressed concern about many of the military targets being near hospitals, schools, mosques and private homes." (Carter)
Article 28 of the Geneva Conventions prohibits the use of protected persons (civilians) to render certain points immune from attack (human shields). Saddam, not our forces, is the one violating the Geneva Conventions, you ignorant bastard. We will do our best to reduce civilian casualties, but innocent people die in war. Nothing can prevent that. Even appeasement and surrender can only guarantee that the innocent dead will be ours. (Cato)
Read it all here
a hat tip to Beaker