Conflicting Stories On 25 Killed In Iraq

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/15/conflicting-stories-on-25-killed-in-iraq

Conflicting stories on 25 killed in Iraq.

During a 12-hour fire fight north of Baghdad on Tuesday night, 25 armed Iraqis were killed. But local authorities disagree with the U.S. military over who exactly was killed, al Qaeda militants or anti-al Qaeda fighters:


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In a statement, the U.S. military said the fight began when “coalition forces observed several armed men in the target area and, perceiving hostile intent, called for supporting aircraft to engage.”

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you'd think they'd use a random # generator or something but pretty much it goes 25 insurgents per one US soldier killed, 4 soldiers killed, 200 insurgents reportedly go down. pretty standard really. It's in the Bush war plan manual.

What makes a "suspected insurgent"? The fact that they were shot by U.S. soldiers?

My favorite has always been NVA Regulars. The Marine PIO El-Tee in Full Metal Jacket did a great riff on "NVA Regulars" during a style-sheet briefing for his Stars and Stripes writers (including Joker and Rafferman): So, just what is an NVA Irregular?

Iraq's are having more weddings than in recent months all is well on the war front...

I watched a bit of msnbc as well, I had hopes for Joe for a time, but just like tweety, they cannot be trusted, once shrills for the gop, always will they fall back on heeding the memo to attack attack attack all that represents democracy in this country.

Again, even with this information, will the majority of American citizens really care if those slain were al queda or just iraq citizens defending their homes? Of course not, our prejudices towards others is very real and sadly too prevalent in the minds of too many.

Not enough will care...when will our uncaring of human life lost that are not Americans be our undoing?

and this filthy administration is trying so hard to make it seem that things are going so well in Iraq, what total BS. They did not talk about the attack near the Green Zone or how many troops got killed in that situation or how many Iraqis got killed, or how we are causing a humanitarian crisis of Iraqis going to other countries for refuge. The media again shows its total incompetence and does not report the truth to the American people. Thus the dumbing down of Americans continues.

military sez they killed "insurgents", then that's it--there's no questioning it. MY question is, why are we still there, killing anybody?