"This was a terrible accident -- it was not intentional," Wood, 42, said with an army interpreter by his side. "The soldier who did this did not intend to shoot and kill a woman. I wanted to apologize on behalf of those soldiers.
"I know that explanation doesn't make anything any easier."
"She was pregnant. She died right away," Nasser said again and again.
I somehow doubt that there are any words of condolence that could possibly make these families feel any better about the loss of their loved ones.
This has always been the part of this conflict that I have found to be the hardest to deal with.
Imagine living your life and suddenly having a foreign army invade you and indiscriminately kill your friends and family. Yeah I know that the military tries to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, but for me one innocent death is too many.
How many civilian casualties is acceptable to this administration? How many children are disposable in the interest of this great crusade? How can we argue so fervently for the life of an unborn fetus here in America and then allow so many innocents to die in our name in another country? How is that acceptable to any loving, caring, human being? How?
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