Winning the Hearts and Minds, Part Four

At a time the Bush Administration is claiming victory for the constitution in Iraq (and while the votes are still being counted - sounds familiar doesn't it?), we are out winning over the Iragis with our "precision" bombing.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military said Monday that coalition forces launched airstrikes Sunday in and around Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing "an estimated 70 terrorists."

But an Iraqi doctor who reported 20 people killed -- including six children -- and 25 wounded said all those were civilians.

An Iraqi Ministry of Health official also said one child was killed and two women wounded in the airstrikes.

Military officials said they had no reports of civilians killed.

"We do careful targeting to ensure minimum civilian casualties in the areas that the insurgents are operating," said Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, director of the U.S.-led Combined Press Information Center.

In Vietnam, we burned down villages "to save them." In Iraqi, we call everyone we kill "a terrorist," including those who apparently stop to looked at burned out Humvees.

We don't kill civilians, the Bush Administration says. Just like we don't torture prisoners.

These people make me ill, disgusted and embarrassed to be an American.