Hearts and Minds

I don't want to generalize about our entire military or our presence in Iraq based on one incident, but this is really the most disgusting thing, among dozens of outrageous incidents, to emerge from our presence in Iraq.

I know people will say that these are isolated incidents, but the nature if this attack is so viscious that you have to believe that there's something in the psychology of our occupation over there that contributes to an environment where these types of things happen.

Events like this one, along with Abu Ghraib and Haditha, discredit the last remaining rationale for our invasion of Iraq - that we went in to stop a brutal dictator from mistreating his people - and serve as further proof that it's time to get out. I'd venture to say that the average Iraqi, and most notably the remaining family of this 14-year-old girl, would choose the rule of Saddam Hussein over this any day.