So, what else is new?

This story and the comments are very disturbing.

The troops are fighting a war they have been ordered to fight.
The troops are not your beef, so stop it.

If you do not agree with the whole war in Iraq, say so. Do not mock civilian deaths, the use of human shields which does happen, or the troops doing their best.

Troops involved in civilian deaths feel terrible, that is not their purpose and they try to avoid it even to the point of increasing risk to themselves.

The Iraq war is an oil grab based on lies.  Is the strategic importance of grabbing the oil worth the cost?  I do not believe so, but that is the objective of the war in Iraq.

Get off the troops, of all the people involved they are NOT the bad guys.

Of all the people involved the ONLY righteous guys are troops, and yes there are many righteous men in every sense among them.

If you start the “baby killers” bs of the Viet Nam war I am as much against you as the crooks who lied us into war to begin with.

Anyone who mocks the death of children for any reason needs to have their heads examined.

I rebuke you.

The basic question which this story does not try to answer, is how this unidentified “Iraqi police officer” got his information ?  Is he some Green Zone PR flak, or was he there ?  We are not told the slightest crumb of information here.  It is so insulting to the readers that I don’t believe a bit of it.

Early reports came from the hospital where the dead and wounded kids were taken, and that report - where the teachers would have been able to ggive a fuller account, did not mention ANY shhotikng from the ground towards the helicopter gunship.

If you are human, you eserve to be outraged when these basic questions aren’t even touched bu whatever ghost wrote the article.