Can We Stop Bombing Wedding Parties in Iraq?

If every wedding party was a meeting of jihadists and/or insurgents, wouldn't we just go around bombing wedding parties?  Sound familiar?

(sorry if this had been covered earlier in the day)

U.S. airstrike reportedly hits wedding party

11 killed in Fallujah day after insurgents target Baghdad hotels

MSNBC News Services

Updated: 8:43 a.m. ET Oct. 8, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. air raid, aimed at foreign fighters led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed 11 people and wounded 17 after a wedding party in the rebel-held Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, residents and doctors said.

More after the bump.

The airstrike on Fallujah came a day after two rockets hit a downtown Baghdad hotel housing foreigners and journalists, and gunfire erupted in the neighborhood across the Tigris River from the U.S. Embassy compound. On Friday, the U.S. military said a "precision strike" hit a safe-house used by associates of the Jordanian Islamist militant in northwest Fallujah at 1:15 a.m. local time.

Rescuers dug bodies from rubble with their hands after the raid on the house where residents said a wedding party had just taken place. They said the groom died and the bride was wounded."Credible intelligence sources confirmed al-Zarqawi leaders were meeting at the safe-house at the time of the strike," a U.S. military statement said.

This at least the second time this has happened this year.  When will this countrie,s people (USA) had enough? Success? You call this success, Mr. Bush?

Like the old court sentence, this administration should be sentenced to go sit in their own mess and just live there like the slumlords they are.

•  Is the War

  an out of bounds subject during the last few weeks of this election?

  Mark

  by Dems2004 on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 04:05:20 PM PDT

•  I heard from a friend in government

  that during the actual invastion of Iraq, the US Air Force carried out over 300 airstrikes against "leadership targets" (i.e. buildings where they thought Saddam and his key aides were staying). When the Air Force went back to evaluate the air strikes after the invasion - they learned that NOT ONE BOMB HIT A DESIGNATED "LEADERSHIP TARGET."
  
  What it means is that for all the US boasts about its intelligence capabilities - they could not accurately locate, identify, and target the senior bad guys. We ran over 300 bombing missions that likely killed a lot of civilians, but had no impact on the Iraqi leadership as planned.
  
  The Pentagon loves to talk about "precision bombing" but they really need to work on "precision targeting." Otherwise, we're just going back to Vietnam and "free fire zones."

  by Hoya90 on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 04:24:15 PM PDT

•  Zarqawi

  attends EVERY Iraqi wedding.  

  Thus, every Iraqi wedding is a bonafide, legitimate military target.  Q.E.D.

  I thought this administration wanted to protect marriage!  You don't think that these are gay Iraqi weddings that are being targeted, do you? (And since multiple marriages are very rare in Iraq, even though Islam permits them, I don't think that this is Bush targetting bigamy).

  by ogre on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 05:57:00 PM PDT