Not Your Sweetie

NYT:


"We had a great day," Sergeant Schrumpf said. "We killed a lot of people."

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But more than once, Sergeant Schrumpf said, he faced a different choice:
one Iraqi soldier standing among two or three civilians. He recalled one
such incident, in which he and other men in his unit opened fire. He recalled
watching one of the women standing near the Iraqi soldier go down.

"I'm sorry," the sergeant said. "But the chick was in the way."