Reply #33: I don't think so. [View All]

Quagmire seems to me to be saying the villagers were smuggling out Iraqi deserters.

For one thing, he mentions the smuggling of "officers":

"Since a recon was done the previous evening, they did not think they could go through with smuggling the officers out. I would think they were also planning to take them with them back to Syria since part of the family were Syrians."

He also suggests, by implication that the village was a way station for smuggling out "terrorists":

"What the Iraqi's said makes more sense than what the americans say about the same event. Destroying an incomming way station for local terrorists would make no difference. They would just find another one. But it would be much harder for an outgoing one where both sides could trust each other."

My own personal opinion is that the wedding celebrants were firing weapons in the air, and the US helicopter crew panicked and massacred everybody, thinking that they were under fire. Now the US is trying to make this event seem like it had a military justification.