Well .. I'm still not buying it!
There are plenty of "insurgents" within Iraq who would love to embarrass us and cause another uprising of "bring the troops home now" mantra.
The actions by those who "witnessed" the incident .. wreaks of paid informant. And .. I suppose by now all the bodies have been cremated in order to COVER the evidence that the people WERE NOT SHOT by our military weapons - but might have been shot by Iraqi weapons..?? Hmmmmm ..??
And .. how do we know that the room was not full of insurgents .. holding these people hostage and just waiting in ambush for our soldiers to come by and start returning fire, and the insurgents attacked all the people in the house to make it LOOK LIKE our soldiers did it.
Can anybody answer these questions ..??
Sorry .. I'm still not buying it!
I'm with you, and I'm surprised that even the "friendlies" (such as they are) in the media are only giving the salacious 10-second bytes to this whole stinking scenario.....they don't even hang around long enough to give it the smell test.
"And .. how do we know that the room was not full of insurgents .. "
Exactly. A few Viet Nam Marine vets I spoke to didn't even flinch about what happened. Unfortunately, there is always collateral damage. Only the men who have fought in war can understand it. All those marines could be dead right now - we just don't know. Instead, they are in solitary confinement. God bless them.
Wonder if these people were shot in the head after they were dead?? This is beginning to look more and more like an insurgent framing???
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters