I just read all the replies in here and am amazed at the lengths certain Americans will go to in order to maintain their high level of willed ignorance. Checkpoint procedures, Sgrena is a commie, her story is BS with tank rounds, sattelite pics show that the car must've been doing over 60mph to get to the next pic (I was LMAO with [i]that[/i] logic), the poor soldiers tried to save her later, blah blah blah, so many excuses.....
I won't even bother getting into whether the soldiers knowingly shot to kill, whether it was an accident or whether someone higher up in the US chain of command "conveniently forgot" to inform this makeshift patrol.
I won't even insist on the point that Berlusconi's gov't, of all Bush allies, is flatly rejecting the US version. What I [i]will[/i] insist on is the following:
[u]The US [b]still[/b] won't release the car to forensic experts, months later![/u]
Why not release the car to Italian forensic experts? Is releasing the car [i]also[/i] a matter of security? It seems that whenever the Bush admin does something criminal, it has to be classified because of "security".
So, let's see the car! Let forensic experts finally examine it so we can see who is telling the truth. The problem, though, is that the Yanks have absolutely no intention of handing over the car, do they.
Case closed, as far as I'm concerned. Either the Americans let the car be examined (which they haven't and won't) or they are full of crap, as usual.
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I just read all the replies in here and am amazed at the lengths certain Americans will go to in order to maintain their high level of willed ignorance. Checkpoint procedures, Sgrena is a commie, her story is BS with tank rounds, sattelite pics show that the car must've been doing over 60mph to get to the next pic (I was LMAO with [i]that[/i] logic), the poor soldiers tried to save her later, blah blah blah, so many excuses..... I won't even bother getting into whether the soldiers knowingly shot to kill, whether it was an accident or whether someone higher up in the US chain of command "conveniently forgot" to inform this makeshift patrol. I won't even insist on the point that Berlusconi's gov't, of all Bush allies, is flatly rejecting the US version. What I [i]will[/i] insist on is the following: [u]The US [b]still[/b] won't release the car to forensic experts, months later![/u] Why not release the car to Italian forensic experts? Is releasing the car [i]also[/i] a matter of security? It seems that whenever the Bush admin does something criminal, it has to be classified because of "security". So, let's see the car! Let forensic experts finally examine it so we can see who is telling the truth. The problem, though, is that the Yanks have absolutely no intention of handing over the car, do they. Case closed, as far as I'm concerned. Either the Americans let the car be examined (which they haven't and won't) or they are full of crap, as usual.