Posted on 07/23/2004 8:12:45 AM PDT by dead
Another wedding..
This is sort of like a "car-vs-train" article. One lesson I learned from driving a tank on the Autobahn - the tank always has the right-of-way.
I wonder if the air bag in the M-1 Abrams deployed?
So someone trying to pass (presumably by going into the opposite direction lane) and getting into an accident is now somehow an indictment of our military presence in Iraq?
Why is this in the news?
Amazing how many "wedding parties" seem to run into bad luck...
And the lesson of the day, boys and girls, is: "Don't play Chicken with 70 tons of Detroit steel".
Of course it would never occur to Muslims to think that maybe Allah is trying to tell them something.
It's funny how he seems to enforce his will ONLY when non-muslims get killed.
"They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said.
An unidentified eyewitness? Why does AP print this nonsense? (as if I didn't know) First a tank crashes into a van... then an amoured vehicle hit them and left? I bet it was a bunch of neoCons at the wheel... that's it, yeah and they were drinking non-union beer and looking for a picket line to cross. Some reports said that they had a Confederate flag on the tank too.
Are you sure we can't call that tank an SUV?
Because the "news" is whatever the socialist press wants to make it.
The only reason this is in the news is because it offers "evidence" of evil soldiers killing civilians. If I'm not mistaken, quite a few of our soldiers have been killed in auto accidents in Iraq.
Ive seen plenty of reporters mention that Iraqis drive like maniacs.
""They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said."
What, they should have stayed around, and gotten out of their tanks to see what happened?
Good way to become RPG bait.
"They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said.
There's your punchline, right there.
Henceforward, every Iraqi traffic fatality will be the fault of Boosh, the Joos, and their armored vehicles.
If this van had run into a wall, it would be no news at all. I am quite confident that our soldiers are not over there crushing vanloads of wedding-goers for kicks. But you know what, if the Islamakazis stopped blowing things up all the time, there would be a lot fewer American tanks on the streets...
In the article it sounds like the van caused the crash, not the tank. They were passing another vehicle when the VAN crashed into the tank.
A little spin here............big bad tank..........
And now funeral.
MEMO TO IRAQI FEDEHEEN BRIDES GETTING MARRIED:
WEAR BLACK.
If they would just stick to marring ONE WIFE, their life expectancies would go up!
The 9/11 Commission would call this "a serious lack of imagination".
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