Mortar shells do not “rain” down
The following is the lead paragraph for an AP report of the latest violence in Iraq. Equating mortar shells to raindrops is repugnant and unacceptable.
“BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mortar shells rained down Sunday on a girls’ secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20, witnesses and police said. At least seven other people died in a series of bombings and shootings across the capital, mostly in Shiite areas.”
The article goes on to detail military casualties throughout Iraq before coming back to discuss these deaths and those of other civilians in more detail, as if the deaths of schoolgirls are not as important beyond the initial shock value as the deaths of soldiers/militants/insurgents–whatever you want to call guys with weapons shooting at whatever and whoever strikes their fancy.
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