U.S. raids Baghdad slum; 26 Iraqis die (Article by...Hamid Ahmed...gee...who is HE?)
Here is an excerpt:
"At about 4 a.m., a big American convoy with tanks came and began to open fire on houses — bombing them," said Basheer Ahmed, who lives in Sadr City's Habibiya district. "What did we do? We didn't even retaliate — there was no resistance."
This article is completely slanted...the insinuation and accusation that we just sent tanks in...unprovoked and began blowing holes in the walls of the houses of innocent, impoverished Iraqis as their children slept in their beds. Sure, they have the US spokesmen saying it was a legitimate firefight and so on, but one can be an uneducated dunce and figure out instantly what is being said in this article.
It’s a report. A starting point. Are you going to discount it or move on and look for other reports on the incident?
And it's so typical of what the media has done all along here.
The troops are saying there WAS quite a lot of resistance. It was a genuine firefight and some Mahdi Army scum got wasted (which is excellent news to me.) There's more good to this, but I'd better not say it right now.
So, let's see...who do I believe? the troops or the media...troops...media....gosh what a difficult (not) decision. ;-)