U.S. military says two Iraqi women shot to death (one pregnant)

[sabra]

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=4968726&nav=5D7l

U.S. military says two Iraqi women shot to death

BAGHDAD, Iraq The U.S. military says two Iraqi women have been shot to death in a city north of Baghdad after coalition forces fired at a car that failed to stop at an observation post.

The statement came after Iraqi police said a pregnant woman and her cousin were killed by American troops as they were driving to a maternity hospital in Samarra, a predominantly Sunni city 60 miles north of Baghdad.

A statement from the military says a car entered a clearly marked prohibited area near coalition troops. The statement says "shots were fired to disable the vehicle" after it failed to stop despite repeated signals.

The statement calls the deaths "regrettable" and says "coalition forces go to great lengths to prevent them."

[Justice]

1. Oh. My. God.

this is so sad.

[dysfunctional press]

31. it's even sadder than that...

according to the story on cbs evening news, one of the women was in labor- which is why they sped thru the checkpoint at the maternity hospital.

[marmar]

2. "Regrettable"

How contrite and sympathetic. :grr:

[VegasWolf]

22. "Oopsy Daisy." What a sick oil war this. nt

[ShortnFiery]

3. As was said by one callous sniper in the early days of the invasion

"I guess the chick(s) got in the way." :puke: :grr:

[Ripley]

4. Okay, no doubt about it now.

They are trying to provoke an all out End Times. This is occurring daily and I will never buy this shit about it being a mistake.

The mere presence of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are the CAUSE of the destabilization. Don't believe it? Then why the massive riot after a truck "accident" in Kabul?

[bennywhale]

35. you're right, this sort of sick shit has been

happening since day 1. protestors, kids throwing rocks, people not stopping at check points, wedding parties, villages, towns. there have been so many innocenst killed it HAS to be part of a pattern.

Its in the culture of the military spilling down from the top, and has been for decades. 'Abroad' life is cheap. they are somehow unhuman. there death is not a sad as your death. Its sick

[Boomer]

5. Our Culture of Life at work

Funny, it looks just like death.

[SunDrop23]

6. The jack ass in the White House is regrettable.

[wisteria]

16. You have that right! Extremely regretable. n/t

[tanyev]

7. Any outrage from fundie pro-lifers?

Didn't think so.

[BigDDem]

11. If they were stem cells

floating around in a petrie dish, THEN they would be outraged.

[tanyev]

12. Yeah, I just noticed that the women were on their way to a maternity

hospital. That child was probably hours away from being born, at which point the rabid pro-lifers stop caring about them anyway.

[dysfunctional press]

30. according to cbs evening news- she was in labor at the time...

which is why they were speeding to get to the maternity hospital.

[bennywhale]

36. Same said in the UK guardian

so fucking sad.

[uppityperson]

20. my thought also. And better quit publicizing these things as they undercut

what we are trying to do (extreme :sarcasm: )

[izzie]

8. To many trips back into this country for these kids.

It may be a professional army but most of these men are really just about boys. It is in general the lower grades doing these jobs and they are young. They are trained to kill and it is the way people who train armies like to get them. Put young people in a scary place , who has only learned to kill and what can one think he will do? I am not shocked.

[bdamomma]

9. I think it is time for these soldiers to come home

they are loosing their minds, terrible, this should not be done in our name.

[Nimrod2005]

10. Should keep Al Jazeerah busy for about 2 weeks...Then later,

Osama Bin Laden's statement on it...

[HeeBGBz]

13. Late Term Abortion

Someone call the Righties-to-Life bunch.

How very sad.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Maybe the correct term would be "Military Abortion".

[HeeBGBz]

18. That about sums it up. n/t

[rodeodance]

14. as Murtha said-our troops are paranoid of their own shadows -and

things like this will continue to happen as long as we are there! Paraphasing his statement.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

15. If you don't willingly give us your hearts and minds we will splatter...

We will splatter them all over the walls!

TROOPS HOME NOW!

[ArmchairMeme]

19. Consequences

Isn't * bringing "democracy" to Iraq.

In the "democracy" they tell us we have in the U.S. a person convicted of killing a pregnant woman would be sentenced to TWO life sentences.

[Vinca]

21. This is too much to take.

Birthing women being killed in our names. I've never been so upset.

[951-Riverside]

23. ....yeah well our soldiers are totally stressed out

they deserve a free kill or two... maybe 5 or even 8.

:sarcasm:

[VegasWolf]

24. Killing a pregnant woman on her way to the hospital. Gee Georgie, you're

doing a heck'uva job! How much more love do you think we can inspire in the middle-east you drooling dumb-fuck.

[Contrary1]

25. "shots were fired to disable the vehicle"

Lots of ways to disable a vehicle, other than killing all its occupants.
You would think that with all the money being spent, crossing gates
could be erected.

I am sickened beyond words at what this president has done.

**On edit: All occupants were not killed. The driver was not shot. Sorry for the error.

[superconnected]

26. More blood on Bush's hands

[Greylyn58]

27. U.S. probes killing of pregnant Iraqi

Attacks kill at least 22, including mayor and TV reporter


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military is investigating reports its soldiers killed two women, one of whom was pregnant, in Samarra, according to the U.S. military and an official with the Joint Coordination Center in Salaheddin province.

snip...

Witnesses of the Samarra shooting said the women were killed when their vehicle drove through a checkpoint around 3 p.m., but that information has not yet been verified, the Joint Coordination Center official said.

The official said 35-year-old Nahiba Husayif Jassim and Faliha Mohammed Hassan, 55, were headed for the hospital Tuesday for the delivery of Nahiba's baby.

snip...

"It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped," the AP quoted him as saying. "God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives."


Damn this war and those who got us into it. What freakin good are we doing these people? NONE...absolutely none!!!! Lord have mercy on us all.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/iraq.main/index.html

[leftchick]

28. "we are democratizing them"

I just heard a NG from NH on KO say that. :eyes:

[KamaAina]

29. "Unborn Victims of Violence Act"

Once Iraq becomes the 51st state, they won't be able to get away with stuff like this. Here in the good ol' USA, our godly repuke Congress :sarcasm: has made law that allows for multiple felony charges in this sort of case, one for the woman and a separate charge for the fetus.

Bit of a double standard here, don't you think?

[lumpy]

32. Another case of many many

civilians who have been killed on the streets in their cars trying to get from one place to another.

[Rex]

33. Coalition forces are scared shitless of car bombs.

Can't say I blame them, but DAYUM...a pregnant woman on her way to a maternity hospital. How much worse can it get? I would hate to be the one who has to tell the HUSBAND. God I feel for the people in Iraq! Get our troops OUT NOW!

[lanlady]

34. the sad thing is....

All the pro-war Christian fundies out there will find a way to justify the killing of a woman in labor and her dead child.