Human Shields and Choice

[kandrathe]

As for asking examples of them, I only recall them mentioning the 400 killed in the bomb shelter. My answer OTOH would be "search Google". I did a similar search a couple of months back with terms like "military blunder", "collateral damage" and "civilian casualties".

Hmmm, that is one of the problems of having ultra precise devastating weapons. Even when you have bad information, you will hit what you aim at. IIRC, more coalition soldiers were killed in GW1 by friendly fire, than from hostile fire. I would not call that "callous and indiscriminatory", but rather a consequence of mistakes in identifying where to drop high explosives.

I would bet that if you compared the ratio to civilian casualties from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and GW1 you would see that GW1 stands out as a war where a military was able to specifically hit almost exclusivly what they wanted. That is of coarse in contrast to Saddam's launching of SCUD's against civilian populations.