Perhaps not the most diplomatic of responses

The bewitching Ralph Peters
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Scarborough Country (MSNBC)

Discussing the shooting death of Italian foreign intelligence chief Nicola Calipari and the injuring of Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena and their driver by American forces in Iraq:

SCARBOROUGH: This reporter for this communist newspaper [Il manifesto] says…[s]he thinks she was a target. What do you say to that?

RETIRED COL. RALPH PETERS, AUTHOR, BEYOND BAGHDAD: Well, first of all, if Giuliana Sgrena had been a target of our soldiers, that witch would be dead.