"Paid a Price."

I do not think "paid a price" means what Dana Perino thinks it means:

"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. ..."

Oh, right.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 370-08

May 01, 2008
DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Merlin German, 22 of Manhattan, N.Y., died April 11 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from wounds he suffered while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq, on Feb. 22, 2005. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif., while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. German’s parent unit was the 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. He was medically retired Sept. 28, 2007, as a result of his injuries.

Media with questions about this Marine can contact the Headquarters Marine Corps public affairs office at (703) 614-4309.

Perhaps by the time Ms. Perino and her superiors arrive at The Hague, she will have, inshallah, learned the difference.

In the meantime, a continued stream of corpses is a very real side effect of a mendacious government.