No Child Left Alive

The New York Times reports that the Bush administration is wasting no time in acting on its electoral mandate. In an article titled Fighter Jet Strafes New Jersey School During a Nighttime Training Mission, reporters Robert D. McFadden and Robert Hanley write:

It sounded like somebody running across the roof of the elementary school in a New Jersey township Wednesday night, said the cleaning woman who called the police. No prowler was found. But yesterday, what had seemed a minor item in a police blotter touched off state and federal military investigations after it was disclosed that an F-16 warplane had strafed the school with cannon fire.

The Air National Guard warplane, flying a night training mission out of Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, fired a burst of 27 rounds from its 20-millimeter cannon shortly before 10:15 p.m. as it streaked over Little Egg Harbor Township, 20 miles north of Atlantic City, New Jersey military officials said last night.

Repeat after me: Holy. Shit.