WTF Is It Now?!?

"We dropped a few civilians, but what do you do?"
"We had a great day," Sergeant Schrumpf said. "We killed a lot of people."

To be fair, war IS hell. To illustrate, the sergeant offered a pair of examples from earlier in the week.

"There was one Iraqi soldier, and 25 women and children," he said, "I didn't take the shot."

But more than once, Sergeant Schrumpf said, he faced a different choice: one Iraqi soldier standing among two or three civilians. He recalled one such incident, in which he and other men in his unit opened fire. He recalled watching one of the women standing near the Iraqi soldier go down.

"I'm sorry," the sergeant said. "But the chick was in the way." - A bit out of context, some would say, so go here for the whole story.