In my: ----- Original Message ----- From: Leigh Meyers To: lbo-talk Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Indecorous, too
I said:
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. <...>
>From the WashPost:
[ "Best debunking within text body" category...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7315-2005Mar4.html?referrer=email
Accounts provided by U.S. military officials in Baghdad largely suggested that responsibility for the incident lay with the Italians. Marine Sgt. Salju Thomas, a military spokesman, said soldiers "fired on a vehicle approaching a checkpoint in Baghdad at a high rate of speed." Sgrena was being treated by coalition forces medical personnel, he added.
A few hours later, a statement from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad said troops fired at a speeding car that "refused to stop at a checkpoint."
The statement said soldiers with... <...>
The statement did not explain how bullets fired into the engine block hit the passengers. It said the surviving intelligence agent "was treated by Army medics on the scene but refused medical evacuation for further assistance."
Finally, a State Department official in Washington said the Italians did not tell either the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad or U.S. military commanders about Sgrena's release, even though a U.S. hostage coordinator had been working closely with them on the case. <...>
Shit happens.
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