Witnesses: Iraqi forces fired on civilians, leaving dozens dead or injured

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/30/build/world/75-iraqiattack.inc

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Witnesses said Saturday that Iraqi forces opened fire on six vehicles, including three minibuses, after a U.S. convoy came under attack in a central Iraqi town south of Baghdad, killing or injuring more than a dozen people.

Eyewitnesses speaking to Associated Press Television News said an American convoy was attacked early Saturday near the town of Haswa, about 25 miles south of the capital.

After the U.S. troops pulled out, Iraqi police and National Guard arrived on the scene. Witnesses said Iraqi troops opened fire randomly and used hand grenades, hitting three minibuses and three trucks. snip

APTN footage showed bloody, dead bodies riddled with bullet holes inside the buses and on the street. Blood and gas was trickling underneath the vehicles. Empty bullet cases were also scattered around.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Freedom is on the march

and it can be untidy.

[Steelangel]

2. jeez man

[maddezmom]

3. no words....

If this is the new face of democracy and security for Iraq, we sure haven't done a great job of training.

[seventhson]

9. 100,000 Iraqi war dead . THAT is Bush's legacy: mass murder

and we let it happen.

[maddezmom]

11. and in some ways it's our legacy, too

:(

[NeoConsSuck]

23. You got that right..

65% of americans supported the invasion. And please, I don't want to hear, 'Well, they were lied to'. Ignorance is no defense in war crimes.

[maddezmom]

24. americans were lied to by the gov't

[troublemaker]

4. Jesus! You can tell who's training them

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. That's the kind of native police the crusaders have wanted

They've gone through a lot of duds, guys who just signed on to get a meal and then refused to murder their friends and neighbors when Sahib commanded.

Ton Ton Macout

[NNN0LHI]

8. Bet they bussed some Kurds in for the dirty work n/t

[The Magistrate]

21. You Are Quite Right, Mr. Fatwa

This sort of thing is the best that can really be expected out of a force of Iraqis recruited to sustain the puppet regime. They are demonstrating here on a small scale the only way forces of such a government could conceivably keep it in power after a withdrawl of U.S. forces. Getting out of this thing will be attended by as much ignominy as embarking on it. The burbling of Cheney that it will be studied for years is accurate save one detail: it will be studies with awe, not admiration, by people amazed and abashed by the display of an incompetence eclipsing even that of Adowa and Annual....

"A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[Judi Lynn]

6. Bush's gift of "freedom" just keeps on giving. God help them. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

7. freedom's just another word for no one left alive?

horrible.

[SmokingJacket]

10. So many of us predicted this war would be a bloodbath...

in spite of the bushistas telling us about all the dancing and flower-tossing that was sure to happen.

It's never felt so awful to be right.

[aquart]

13. It's going exactly like we said it would.

Wasn't that hard to figure out.

[maddezmom]

15. unless you're on the oher side :(

[bvar22]

17. Going exactly like w*s own DADDY said it would!

Poppy Bush* predicted this disaster in 1991.

[latebloomer]

12. endless carnage

And they wonder why the world hates us?

[VegasWolf]

14. See, and who said we couldn't train them? n/t

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[maddezmom]

16. CNNI covered this stoey with Jane Araf

thank god for DirectTV, still get CNN on the weekends :)

[UpInArms]

18. :(

Such comments bring to mind the response of the Secretary of Defense to the chaos and looting that erupted in Baghdad immediately after the American invasion. “Democracy is messy,” Rumsfeld said. As the U.S. stumbles in its quest to bring democracy to the heart of the Middle East, this observation might be well taken, both in Iraq and here at home too.

http://www.fpa.org/newsletter_info2583/newsletter_info_sub_list.htm?section=Americans%20Wonder%3A%20Can%20Iraq%20be%20saved%3F

Such a lack of foresight and true leadership is dooming us all.

:cry:

[darkism]

19. Yep, we're training them do a BANG UP job right there. n/t

[burrowowl]

22. Just like our SWAT teams

in ABQ, SWAT team has downed a few innocent civilians.

[0rganism]

20. Looks like Iraqization is proceeding on schedule

Pretty soon, we'll be able to pull out our ground forces and get back to high altitude bombing.

[maddezmom]

25. kick

[saigon68]

26. kick