"Now Everything Is Messed Up" – Killings by U.S. Troops Outrage Iraqis

[kskiska]

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Sept. 13 -- Hundreds of angry residents sprayed an armory's worth of bullets into the air, brandished rocket-propelled grenade launchers and vowed to initiate a new wave of attacks against American forces during funerals today for eight Iraqi police officers mistakenly killed by U.S. soldiers.

U.S. troops steered clear of this tense Sunni Muslim city along the Euphrates River during the brazen show of force. Police officers and members of a municipal militia, deputized by American commanders to maintain order, joined young boys and middle-aged merchants in firing AK-47 assault rifles to express their outrage at what one officer called "a horrible crime."

This afternoon, about 36 hours after the shooting, the U.S. military issued a statement expressing "deep regret and apologies" for the incident. Fallujah's mayor, Taha Bedawi, said U.S. commanders also offered to make "blood money" compensation payments to the victims' families. But those steps did little to mollify people here, even pro-American city officials, who said Fallujah's already bad relationship with the occupation forces had plummeted to a new low.

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"Even when things were bad before," he said, pointing to several men blasting large-caliber machine guns toward the sky, "you didn't see things like this. Now everything is messed up."


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[Jacobin]

1. Quag

mire.

[BeHereNow]

3. Ledeen

Wet dream

[reprobate]

2. Thank you, Captain Codpiece.

Perhaps the CIC (Coward In Charge) should go apologize to them himself.

I'm sure that would molify them.

[colorado_ufo]

6. He would have to travel in something akin to

the Popemobile, or he wouldn't last long enough to say his first lie.

[saigon68]

8. He's the Chimpanzee in Charge.

I feel safer already. Good to know we are killing thousands of terrorists so our children will be safe.

[Maccagirl]

4. Rummy will have a hissy

and blame the media for reporting this.

[olmy]

5. When does it reach a point of no-return?

Will there be a day when it just all falls apart? Will another fiasco like this happen and it all unwinds? Do the computer room morons have a plan for this if it come to pass?

I am worried that they have no plan in case there is a huge uprising against a scenario like this. I just remember seeing the panic at the fall of Saigon.

[seventhson]

7. Bush has created a Nonstop Clusterfuck of death

FUBAR

It is Bush's fault and he should be in an American gulag or Guantanamo. Him AND his crooked father. Cheney's lying ass too.

IMPEACH!!!

(in the meantime DUCK!!! when you say stuff like this)

[Voltaire99]

9. Terribly sorry! Woe is us! Oh well! Aw shucks! Still, you're free!

Dead, too. But free, don't forget.

[Rex]

10. This is getting to be so Monty Python

"Sorry old boy...really am sorry about killing all those people and such, well pip pip...chin up. Whoops! Killed some more...I do so apologize for that little mishap. Right then!

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Please, sir...

May I have a bucket?
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[snippy]

12. "Now everything is messed up." Now? Now ? ? NOW ? ? ?