American military official on CNN

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"You never kill civilians on purpose but you never refrain from killing civilians if it helps to defeat the enemy."

Saddam Hussein would agree.

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This was a big issue in the Vietnam War, when it was sometimes nearly impossible to tell the enemy from civilians. Sometimes, a child would approach soldiers carrying a concealed weapon. I'm no military strategist, but it seems that conventional warfare is a thing of the past.