Brig. General Mark Kimmit's reaction to the surfacing of a videotape seeming to demonstrate that the gathering which the "coalition" bombed the shit out of last week was indeed a wedding party -- "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." -- is the pull-quote of the day (maybe even of the month).
But check out some of Kimmit's other words of wisdom:
• At this point, we have seen really nothing that causes us to change our minds. That's why we need to get as much evidence as possible and hand it to the investigators.
• Day after day after day as we continue to get more evidence in ... it is pretty clear to us that what happened that night -- from after midnight to about 0400 -- that the activities that we saw on the ground were somewhat inconsistent with a wedding party.
In other words, at the time it layed the attack the "coalition" had no idea what was going on at the gathering. (Hell, it even claimed, at the time, that it had blown up a suspected safe house for Syrian fighters.)
Hey, asshole: what the fuck happens if the "investigators" corroborate the survivors' and the videotape's account? Do the 45 people you massacred -- including many women and children -- magically come back to life? No? Then why the fuck didn't you gather your evidence before dropping your bombs?
And what the fuck is "somewhat inconsistent" supposed to mean? That it probably was a wedding party, but we can't be 100% sure yet? That the activities were "somewhat inconsistent" for an American wedding party? Maybe that's because it wasn't an American wedding party. Huhn!
• What we found on the ground and our post-strike analysis suggests that what we had was a significant foreign fighter smuggler waystation in the middle of the desert that was bringing people into this country for the sole purpose of attacking to kill the people of Iraq.
To kill the people of Iraq? The sole purpose? That's the only conceivable purpose for which "foreign fighters" (which even the U.S. military commanders claim to have seen very few of) might enter into Iraq? Not even a stray thought toward attacking the American invaders?
Ooo-kay, dude.