U.S. Contractors kill 2 Iraqi women - NY Times

Jon » 12 October 2007 » In Iraq, outsourcing »

The following picture, taken by Joao Silva, accompanies Andrew E. Kramer and James Glanz’s report on a recent incident in Baghdad.

This is, necessarily, the price of our course of action. I don’t know whether or not the United States should withdraw. But it seems to me self-evidence that we’re responsible for creating the situation. Should we stay, we need - even at greater risk, at greater cost - to treat Iraqi lives as though they were as precious as American lives. American lives that we care about, mind you - not quite like Americans who live in New Orleans, if you take my meaning.

Link to Kramer/Glanz piece.

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