Boo-hoo, if I believed any of this. I'll go with what the army guy said: bad people have celebrations too.
This Sheherezade is a real piece of work and the AP is crossing the line with their propaganda here.
Excerpt:
He said that video showing dead children killed was actually recorded in Ramadi, far from the attack scene.
Excerpt
Q For General Kimmitt, sir. There was footage shown on Associated Press Television Network yesterday that seemed to depict civilians who were purportedly killed in the incident near the Syrian border. Is the military disputing that any civilians were killed? There were graphic images of dead children. Does the military have a position on whether these children were killed in this incident?
GEN. KIMMITT: The persons that we had on the ground did not find -- and they were on the ground for an extensive period of time -- they did not find any dead children among the casualties of that engagement.
~snip~
So let's see here. They show movies of a wedding. And that's supposed to be evidence that we bombed said wedding?
Naturally, the lamestream media eats it up...and the Leftists swallow such "proof" without question.
It is to laugh.
Sheherezade is still flogging away.
Did the video show which jihadi caught the bride's garter?
Yawn..
Click below for more information. During WW II, did the AP run either Nazi or Japanese propaganda, much less unfiltered? Just a thought.
Congressman Billybob
Excerpt:
Q Yes, Mike Georgia (sp) from Reuters. There are relatives of a well-known wedding singer who say he and his brother were killed in this incident near the Syrian border. And they brought the bodies back to Baghdad. Are you willing to sort of review your assessment of what happened in terms of civilians and combatants at this point?
GEN. KIMMITT: Oh, absolutely. We said we're going to do an investigation. We're going to take a hard look at that.
Obviously, for operational and security reasons, I can't reveal much of the details of what got us there and what we did while we were there. But I am persuaded that, again, the purposes that caused us to conduct that operation in the middle of the barren desert in the early mornings (sic) of the hour, which is kind of an odd time to be having a wedding, against what we believed to be 34 to 35 men and a number of women, less than a handful of women, which doesn't seem to be numbers that one would associate with a wedding, by a group in their four-by- fours, well away from any town, in a known RAT line, which is being used by smugglers and foreign fighters frequently, and other intelligence that we found on the ground, pretty well convinces us that what got us there had a valid purpose.
Are we going to take a look at it, are we going to review it, are we going to conduct some measure of investigation based on some of the things that we're hearing here? Of course we are. I think that's the only prudent thing to do. And we may find out new information that we don't have currently. But we are satisfied that the intelligence that we had, the multiple correlated evidence that got us there, and the actions of our forces on the ground, what they found and what they brought back -- foreign passports, money, weapons, satellite communications -- would be inconsistent with a wedding party for sure, and fairly consistent with what we have seen throughout this country time after time after time, which is the flow of foreign fighters to come in to terrorize and kill the Iraqi citizens.
Q Is it possible that you were targeting these fighters and you hit a wedding party next door? Is that possible?
GEN. KIMMITT: Well, I think let's let the investigation bear out. But this was not "next door." This was in the middle of the open desert.
If there really was any kind of party going on, I offer the following words of wisdom for others in the region:
Do not throw s*** at an armed man.
Do not stand next to a man, who throws s*** at an armed man.
Do not allow a man, who throws s*** at an armed man, to live in your house.
In this case, the "s***" was probably AK or even PKM rounds.
What the video doesn't show, the bombing, we'll just have to take their word for that part, right?
This I would like to see. The Bride probably has a mustache.
Okay, so which is it, did the "festivities" end, or was there a wedding going on?
with so much dust and sand thrown up on this topic, I bein to despair of ever grasping the facts.
AP the political arm of Al Jazeera.
Former Prisoner Prefers Saddam's Torture to US Abuse
U.S. Troops Accused of Killing Iraqis
and
Iraqis say US too forceful in Lynch rescue
as just a few Googled examples.
Liberal morons.
I get 85 bajillion channels with my satellite, but that's not one of them. Never heard of it before today.