Dangerous weapons

Apparently cameras are the new Weapons of Mass Destruction after a Reuters cameraman was gunned down by US troops who mistook his camera for a weapon. Hell, mistakes can happen in wartime (in fact my own paterfamilias was seriously injured in a fall resulting from a yell of "Sniper!" in Vietnam), but isn't major fighting supposed to be over in Iraq? I will side step the issue of WMD for the time being, but there are still people being killed months after the Flyboy-in-Chief posed in a flight suit for his photo shoot and declared the end of major fighting, nobody gunned down those cameras on the Abe Lincoln, though! Maybe they ought to use that bright orange for camera lenses like they do for toy guns so that soldiers can tell weapons from cameras.

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