SITUATIONAL ETHICS?

I won't say it can't happen, but you will recall that we refused to target mosques during the height of the war when we knew they contained bad guys shooting at us.

So my guess is the soldiers version of this one is probably right on the money.

You see, the Iraqi's know that we won't violate a mosque. Which allows them to do it...just as they did schools and hospitals during the war.

I guess such violations don't matter unless it is the "infidels" doing the violating.

A huge explosion destroyed a mosque in central Iraq last night, killing at least five Iraqis and injuring four others, witnesses and officials said.

Iraqi civilians claimed that the explosion, which happened in Fallujah, was caused by a missile or bomb strike. The claim was denied by US soldiers at the scene, who said that the blast was likely to have been caused when explosives hidden at the site blew up...

Hours after the explosion, dozens of people gathered around the rubble of the destroyed mosque, shouting anti-US slogans.

"There is no God but Allah: America is the enemy of God," they chanted as a crane lifted large pieces of concrete from the site.

But whatever the cause, this will probably fan the flames in Fallujah.

Read it here.