Civilian deaths increase tension between Iraqi government and US Military.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met Sunday with the top U.S. military commander in Iraq to voice his outrage over the reported deaths of Iraqi civilians during a Sunday morning military raid in Baghdad's Sadr City, a government spokesman told CNN.

Al-Maliki expressed his concerns to Gen. David Petraeus over Iraqi reports that 10 to 15 civilians were killed in the raid, spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told CNN's "Late Edition."

The U.S. military said its ground forces are "unaware" of civilian deaths in the early morning raid that it said left 49 "criminals" dead.

"There is a great tension in the Iraqi government" over the incident, al-Dabbagh said.

I just think it is ridiculous for the American military to even think that they can kill the "enemy" without also taking out a number of civilians. These people live virtually on to of each other, and our bombs are certainly not sophisticated enough to only kill the "bad guy" while sparing the life of the woman or child in the next room.

I understand the concept of keeping American troops safe by trying to kill the target from a distance without putting our people within striking distance, but then we have to ask does that mean we are placing more value on a soldiers life then the life of an Iraqi mother? Or an Iraqi child?