The Civilian Cost of War

“Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you’re gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that’s not a problem,” Garlasco explains. “But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.”

From the mouth of Marc Garlasco, former chief of high value targeting at the start of the Iraq war on 60 Minutes.