From The Corner, an exchange with White House Press Secretary Perino and Press Harpy Helen Thomas:
Q Why should we depend on him?
MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He’s the one who is making sure that the situation is moving —
Q You mean how many more people we kill?
MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.
Just another objective, disinterested member of the American Butthash Media.
My GOD!!! That woman…MY GOD!
I know I’m HAWT.
I’m thinking about you, Von. Right now. I want you to do me where farts come from.
If you know what I mean.
I just threw up a little in my mouth…
Please don’t post anymore pictures. My reality is being warped.
Although Helen Thomas is using her front row seat as a pulpit, Dana Perino is wrong about one point. Occasionally, the American military does kill innocent people. All militaries kill innocent people sometimes. So, in a very real sense, we, the United States, kill the innocent. However, it is very rare for the U.S. to intentionally kill innocent people.
By the way, that picture is so scary I can’t believe it hasn’t been retouched in some way to make it look horrifying.
Well, Perino did acknowledge that:
“MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.
Q Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.
MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.”
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Care to respond?
But she did say, “to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.”
It’s neither absurd nor offensive. It’s fact. That she also said that the WH regrets does nothing to address this particular canard.
The obvious context of Thomas’s conceit was that the U.S. was deliberately killing innocent people. That’s absurd and offensive, as well as focusing on that notion to the exclusion of all else. The broader concept here is that innocent people do get killed in war, but that doesn’t make all war evil.