US troops wound six Iraqis after convoy attacked (civilians)

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12542715.htm

RAMADI, Iraq, Jan 12 (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers shot and wounded six Iraqi civilians on Monday in response to an attack on their convoy in the tense town of Ramadi, residents said.

The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

Witnesses said U.S. soldiers fired randomly after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. The soldiers then raided houses in the area.

Reuters television footage showed cars and front doors pierced by bullets. One man showed bullet holes in his kitchen pots and pans as well as a shattered television screen.

"There were only innocent children here," he said. "What did they think, that Saddam Hussein was here?"

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1. WHAM -- Winning Hearts and Minds n/t

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[ninkasi]

2. Remind me again

who the terrorists are? If I were an Iraqi citizen, and a foreign army invaded my country, then retaliated at random when attacked, I'm afraid it would do nothing to win my heart or my mind. Even if I had been neutral before, and ready to give them the benefit of the doubt, this would convince me that they were aggressors, and I would do everything in my power to get them out of my country.

That's one thing the neocons seem to have a hard time grasping, that we are the invaders, and Iraqis have the right to feel as they wish about their own country.