A disgrace to his father...

I am so glad that Mr. Reagan didn't live to hear his son say these shameful things:

MATTHEWS: Ron, do you think we're randomly killing people in those countries?

REAGAN: Not as a matter of policy, but on the ground you have panicky soldiers who, when they come under fire, have been known, as you know, to drive down a street opening fire on any vehicle they see.

MATTHEWS: -- they are legal cases, because these soldiers have been charged, obviously. But you are saying beyond the ones charged, this is a practice over there?

REAGAN: I am saying it happens in any war, and you have to figure out a way to justly compensate the people whose lives you have destroyed.

O'BEIRNE: Ron, it has happened less in this war than any war I can think of. And our own American troops put their own lives at risk in order to bend over backwards in order to protect innocent civilian lives.

REAGAN: Well, some do and some don't, Kate.

O'BEIRNE: It's a very unfair charge against our military. And Rosie O'Donnell, not withstanding, terrorists and insurgents in Iraq are wholesale targeting innocent civilians.

REAGAN: I agree. I am not sticking up for terrorists. And I'm not saying that our military are terrorists. That doesn't make any sense. But we do have a problem with killing civilians in these countries?

O'BEIRNE: But we bend over backwards to keep it to a complete minimum.

REAGAN: Let's hope so.

O'BEIRNE: -- as humanely as possible.

REAGAN: Let's hope so. We certainly should. [link]

"We certainly should." And we're not bending over backward to protect civilians whenever we can?!

Ron-o, you just ignored the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorists in favor of implying that our men and women in uniform are a bunch of ill-trained, panicky, trigger-happy murderers.

You are a disgrace.

(HT to Lady Cassandra)