[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Marines waged a six-hour battle around the mosque with the militants holed up inside before a Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire missile at the base of its minaret, and an F-16 dropped the bomb, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.

Witnesses said the strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers

So they mean to tell us that people watched this happen for 6 HOURS! and then decided to converge on the mosque to pray???

BS!

[blanknoone]

A 500 pound bomb?!? That's it?!? It should have been multiple 2000 pound bombs. If there is rubble...it will become a shrine to anti-Americanism. If there is nothing...it will be nothing.

[KellyAdmirer]

"Peaceful" Iraqis do seem to do strange things, don't they? They sleep quietly through raging gun battles involving helicopter gunships and automatic weapons only to be killed "innocently asleep in their beds," they calmly go to pray at their local mosque during a raging insurgency outside, and women and children appear on newscasts shouting how they want to kill the invaders and then the Iraqis wail when some children and women are killed. There's also the ubiquitous "pregnant woman" who somehow mysteriously appears in the middle of gunbattles and gets mowed down.

Yep, real funny people, these Iraqis.