Shawn questioned the veracity of the story regarding the "massacre" at Fallujah that I linked to yesterday. After thinking about it and considering the source and narrative tone of the essay, I think it quite possible that the account suffers from hyperbole. After all, in a war, everyone knows that all enemy soldiers eat babies.

What I can believe, quite easily, is that a bunch of young, green recruits pumped full of fear, adrenalin and jingoistic rhetoric overran a village, shooting anything that moved. After all, they'd been told that the place was rife with enemy insurgents, and if you've been trained to be an automatic weapon and you're afraid of having your head blown off, you don't stop to ask questions before doing what you think you need to do before that moving body kills you.

I'm still disgusted at the Administration that brings about such things.