Operation Iraqi Freedom in Action

The irony is almost overdone. As reported by the Los Angeles Times on the sentence of a U.S. Marine in the intentional killing of an unarmed and innocent Iraqi man, Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamandiya:

"Pennington told Folsom he regretted his actions but that he and other Marines were frustrated by their ill-defined mission in Iraq and the inability to tell friend from foe.

'As callous as it sounds,' he said, every Iraqi was considered 'guilty until proven otherwise.'"