With bombers once intended to fight a hot end to the Cold War now being employed to spread an ever increasing load of explosives over the "progress" in Iraq, I suppose it's no surprise that we're still seeing stories like this.

A US air strike north of Baghdad has killed at least 15 women and children, one of the largest losses of civilian life in a single American operation since the war began, the military said. ... 'After securing the area, the ground force assessed 15 terrorists, six women and nine children were killed, two suspects, one woman and three children were wounded, and one suspected terrorist was detained,' it said.

Note that apparently all it take to be a terrorist is to be male and dead. If you live, you're merely a suspect.

It'll probably be a day or two before we know if this suspicious gathering turns out to be a wedding, or a group of legitimate political leaders or just bystanders, but how many demonstrations do we need before we accept that large air strikes are not appropriate tactics in a dense urban environment?