Any One Taking Bets as to Whether We Get More Weeping From Our Dear President Today? - Sub Title: "After They Left The House, They Blew It Up"

Does this sound like an excessive use of force, not to mention an reprehensible loss of innocent lives at the behest of self-proclaimed "culture-of-life" types in the W, Rove and Co.?

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.

Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue -- five children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.

"Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building," U.S. spokesman Major Tim Keefe said. "Coalition Forces returned fire utilising both air and ground assets.

"There was one enemy killed. Two women and one child were also killed in the firefight. The building ... (was) destroyed."

Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children.

"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.

Now that we have this news today, of the Iraq Obscenity Circus, the following question looms larger: Why is it that W can weep for an austistic basketball hero, but not for those people he has committed to death in Iraq?