U.S. forces shoot Iraqi woman after bomb attack

[NNN0LHI]

We can't leave now. Right? Right...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/4865908.htm

BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (Reuters) - An Iraqi woman was killed when U.S. forces opened fire in Baghdad after a bomb was thrown at their convoy, a military spokeswoman said on Saturday.

She said a bomb was dropped from an overpass on a six- vehicle 1st Armoured Division convoy on Friday evening.

"Soldiers opened fire in self-defence," she said. "An Iraqi woman was nearby and she was killed."

The spokeswoman had no information on whether the victim was suspected of involvement in the attack.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. This is not the first time our troops fire wildly in every direction

and kill civilians having nothing to do with the original attack. The British press has reported similar incidents in which GIs shoot in every direction.

There is a lack of command and control on the ground, or these guys had no training whatsoever in how to operate in an urban environment.

What was the line in "Full Metal Jacket" about "gooks"? If they run, they are VC, if they stand still, they are a well-disciplined VC.

[KellyW]

2. All of the good line from Full Metal Jacket are

really from the non-fiction book "Dispaches" by M. Herr.

[NNN0LHI]

5. This is spiraling out of control

If I was an Iraqi guy who was related to this women, and the local chapter of the Iraqi Armed Resistance came calling I would join up in a minute. Even if I had no nationalistic tendencies and really didn't want to join, family honor would force me to do so anyway.

Don

[joshcryer]

9. Exactly, it's that sort of thing that creates ‘terrorists.’

Believe you me, if that happened to me, I'd become a ‘terrorist’ in a heartbeat. And I believe anyone with strong family ties would.

[benfranklin1776]

8. Yep that was the line...

..........when asked how could you shoot women and children the door gunner replied "simple you don't lead them as much." The movie did a nice job of showing how war drags all participants down into never ending descending levels of barbarity.
This whole thing is becoming more disgusting and repellent by the day, but it is what those of is who opposed the war warned against. It is just this type of senseless slaughter of young men and women and the inevitable retributory atrocity that the PNAC madmen who engineered this should be held accountable for in an international criminal tribunal since they started the illegal war they so desperately wanted.

[pinniped]

3. Uh ya, chalk up some more collateral damage for BuShit's BS war.

n/t

[dArKeR]

4. America has gone Insane!

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[Sweetpea]

6. A Product a War?

We can say these casualties happen because they are a product of war.They will say the Americans killed my Mother.

[Barrett808]

7. Interesting that they used a spokeswoman

I wonder if there's some propaganda theory behind that decision.

[lumpy]

10. Iraq is beginning to resemble what

has been going on in the Palestine quagmire for these many years.

[German-Lefty]

11. I kind of predicted that

The theory went on: In the end the US will build settlements on the oil fields and wall in the population. They'll just extract the oil and shoot at anything that comes near thier settlements and bomb anything threatening that seems to develope in the rest of the territories.

That is of coarse if Americans allow that to happen in thier name.