So will Paula Zahn
cover this story tonight,
instead of smearing Murtha?:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women -- one of them about to give birth -- when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday.
Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.
[...]
"I was driving my car at full speed because I did not see any sign or warning from the Americans. It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped," he said. "God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives."
He said doctors tried but failed to save the baby after his sister was brought to the hospital.
The shooting deaths occurred in the wake of an investigation into allegations that U.S. Marines killed unarmed civilians in the western city of Haditha.
I am sick. I am numb. When will rest of America say enough is enough. Time to get these f**king bastards out of Congress.
HT to
AmericaBlog
UPDATE:
BarbinMD pointed out in the comments that I intentionally omitted the US side of the story. My apologies. The only reason I didn't excerpt this specific part because I wanted to limit excerpting of this report 6 paras. But FWIW here is the other side of the story:
The U.S. military said coalition troops fired at a car after it entered a clearly marked prohibited area near an observation post but failed to stop despite repeated visual and auditory warnings.
"Shots were fired to disable the vehicle," the military said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. "Coalition forces later received reports from Iraqi police that two women had died from gunshot wounds ... and one of the females may have been pregnant."
This is all tragic. At least from the information that is available in public this looks much different than the alleged massacre at Haditha. But all this is happening because our troops are in an impossible situation. They are in a country where everyone hates them. They are being asked to referee an ugly and increasingly out of control civil war. And Bush and his cronies who are letting our boys and our country down.