The reality is our soldiers are trained not to shoot things that move. Effective body armour makes that a lot easier to do.
The hard truth, is that many of the IP and IA (Iraqi Polic/Army) are working at cross purposes to ourselves. Usually they do this when off duty, and the US minders aren’t present. In this case we tried to arrest an alleged Iranian agent, and the IP started the shooting.

Of course with the apparent plan for the next Friedman unit being to train up lots more IA and IP, this incident shows how unlikely that strategy is to accomplish anything we’d be happy with.

Of course the administration portrays nearly everyone who takes up arms against us as belonging to either one (or both) of the bogeymen AlQaeda, or Iran. Too many of their past claims of Iranian involvement have not held up to scrutiny to take them at their word.

I was shaking my head when I read this (elsewhere -so this article didn’t surprse me). But well we have a Decider with a particular character trait. That is that the most important character trait is to never back down, never admit you might be wrong. To this sort of person changing one’s mind is the worst sin possible. Of course the voters should have asked, what happens if you elect such a person to be Decider-In_Chief? We are experiencing the great benefits of living in a learning-free zone. Unfortunately a lot of people still think this is an admirable character trait.

For a country so embrioled in other countries politics Our government is sure whining and accusing the Iranis of a lot of interference in Iraq.

It sounds as though both bu$h and paticaketreas are looking for a scapegoat to blame for our failures to quell a huge insurgency.

One another big victory of this damn administration.
Killing innocent people, killing policemen...then who’s next ? Only Bush/Cheney/Rice are able to answer but beasts do not know how to speak human voice.