"The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver. A spokeswoman for KBR, a contracting subsidiary of Halliburton that was formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, said the shooting was under investigation." But look at how the US military explained how it happened: "In Baghdad, Lt. Cmdr. Bill Speaks said, “There was an escalation of force incident at Camp Anaconda on Feb. 5 (Monday) that resulted in the death of a civilian contractor." What? Excuse me? What was that? Escalation of force incident? Who come up with this? Are they comedians by day and military terminologists by night? In other news, I hurt my toe today in...an escalation of force incident. These things happen. I am always careful to avoid escalation of force incidents.