J.L. Kunkle

A civilian killed by military action during declared wartime is collateral damage.

Murder in cold blood is when a person is deliberately killed in peacetime.

Therefore:

A civilian deliberately killed after the declared end of a war has been murdered in cold blood.

............................................

Any civilians killed in Iraq after Bush declared the end of the war weren't killed in wartime.

U.S. soldiers on the ground since the declared end of the war are doing as commanded from the boardroom and combatting the enemy. Because of this, their self-defensive actions during hostility provoked by invasion were deliberate.

Therefore:

The culpability for any deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq falls on the commanders, both military and civilian, who initiated the conflict.

As responsibilities increase, as indicated by the number of keys on my keyring, I get increasingly introspective about the tendency that time has to accelerate as one ages. Its a temporal anomaly that time is subject to perception; a day to me now seemed like a month back when I was 10 years old. I'd like to see Einstein have a crack at solving that one.

True freedom is not the same as absolute freedom. The saying goes, if you love something set it free, yadda yadda. One releases expectation, setting it adrift on a sea of possibility; ready for whatever may come. If you can't have at least one chance at true freedom in your life, it has been an empty life indeed. All the variables and all the probabilities are there, and you can only live this way by being indifferent to the coin toss.