Carl Remick said... "Shit Happens".
It happens more often in the behavioral toilet that's called "The Coalition Forces (tm)"
The Scotsman... gets my vote for the "Most Truthful Headline" category.
"Dishonest" category follows...
Scotsman.com Sat 5 Mar 2005
Hostage is freed... then US army try to kill her
PATRICK QUINN IN BAGHDAD
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=241362005
US TROOPS fired on a car last night as it drove Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to safety after a month in captivity, killing the man who helped negotiate her release from militants and injuring the reporter and two others.
The shooting came as the car sped towards a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad. The US 3rd Infantry Division, which controls Baghdad, said that "US soldiers killed one civilian and wounded two others when their vehicle travelling at high speeds refused to stop at a checkpoint."
It said a US patrol "attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots in front of the car," the military said in a statement. "When the driver didn’t stop, the soldiers shot into the engine block which stopped the vehicle, killing one and wounding two others." <...>
It was not the first "friendly fire" incident involving US-led forces in Iraq.
In November 2003, American soldiers in northern Iraq shot at a car carrying the Italian official heading US efforts to recover Iraq’s looted antiquities. Pietro Cordone, the top Italian diplomat in Iraq, was unhurt, but his Iraqi translator was killed.
Insurgents still hold another reporter, 43-year French journalist Florence Aubenas, who was last seen on a video four days before Sgrena’s release. The veteran war correspondent for the daily Liberation and her Iraqi translator, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi, were last seen leaving her Baghdad hotel on 5 January.
About 200 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in the past year. At least 13 foreigners remain in captivity and more than 30 were killed. <..>
AND NOW...The WINNER... of the disingenuious headline of the week award:
Congressman Says Syria Nuke Comment a Joke Fri Mar 4,10:50 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&u=/ap/20050305/ap_on_go_co/congressman_syria&printer=1
DALLAS - A congressman who raised eyebrows with recent remarks about personally wanting to drop a nuclear bomb on Syria now says he was joking. <...>
Johnson did not respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press on Friday. However, he told The Dallas Morning News that he was surprised anyone took his comments seriously and has never advocated a nuclear strike on Syria.
"I was kind of joking — you know, we were talking between veterans," he said. He added that President Bush knew he was joking. <...>
Sam Johnson didn't say "I was joking"
I don't see that in quotes...
The "honest" headline would read: "Congressman Says Syria Nuke Comment "...kind of joking"
There's a difference, and I'm truly starting to believe that the typical Americans is too stupid to notice the difference.
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