US planes have today hit a Red Cross Warehouse, they now have to explain why - Which may be difficult as being a warehouse it was quite big, and belonging to the Red Cross it would have had a large red cross on top of it.

Now im not saying that the pilot deliberately hit it - Im sure he had what the military considered a "viable target" to hit. However the US still have to expain this because they give the impression that they have total control over all of their bombs and missiles - and as such now have to explain why they wanted to blow up the Red Cross.

The reason that they talk of smart bombs and surgical strikes is because they want people to believe that it is possible to bomb the hell out of somewhere and only kill "Bad People". If they were honest and said "look its very hard to hit what your aiming at from miles away (or when flying at hundreds of miles an hour) so we are going to miss quite often (and a lot of the time we cant be sure if our targets are military or not) and this means that civilians are going to be killed, we know this but we are still going to do it." then they would be seen as the cold murderous people they are (rather like the cold murderous people they are trying to kill).

War kills innocents, and the people in power rarely die. Hopefully more and more people will realise this and then war will be much harder for goverments to wage. Until then it should be interesting to see how Bush explains this "Mistake"