Another Iraq thread: With friends like that...

[Chemical Ollie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4320111.stm

US troops fire at freed hostage

Freed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena has been hurt by US troops firing at a car taking her to Baghdad airport soon after her release.
An Italian secret service agent was killed in the shooting at a checkpoint.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi summoned the US ambassador demanding an explanation for what he called "such a serious incident".

The US military in Baghdad confirmed that forces shot at a vehicle and said an investigation had been launched.

"Coalition forces assigned to the Multinational Force-Iraq fired on a vehicle that was approaching a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad at a high rate of speed," it said in a statement.

"The recently freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was an occupant in the vehicle and was apparently injured," it went on, adding that details were still unclear.

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"Now that all enemies are eliminated, we have to shoot our allies"

[Combat Ingrid]

/me resists the temptation to make a joke about Italian drivers

[BlackCat]

Of course Bush didn't want Italy to get away with freeing a hostage, so he ordered an abush. It was just sheer unluck that the attack helicopters wa sent in the opposite direction and that the howitzers malfunctioned, otherwise the car would have been totally destroyed instead of what some guardians at a checkpoint was able to accomplish.

Yes, for certain, Bush is incompetent, even an ambush on friendly forces he can mess up.

edit: damn spelliggn

[The diplomat]

The car ignored our signals to stop and tried to crash through the checkpoint! How we were suppose to know they were friendlies when they were acting like hostiles?

Nice try, but you can't blame Bush for this one. The soldiers were following SOP.

[Chemical Ollie]

Why have checkpoints in a democracy enjoying full freedom?

SOP is a really bad excuse for any mistake, SOP would have killed Saddam and left no traces if they were fully followed in 2003, prolonging the worst part of the war by months or years.

Throw a grenade down the hole, and all problems will be gone. The grenade will never destroy any private property, it will never kill any innocent children, and that red pulp sticking to the spiderhole wall will be checked out by a DNA test and identified as a part of Saddam's ass. Yeah right... F*CK SOP

[Verto]

Cute troll.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Why have checkpoints in a democracy enjoying full freedom?

BS.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by BlackCat


BS.

I know it's BS, that why I say it

[alva]

You go get them Ollie!!

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


I know it's BS, that why I say it

Can't figure out if you mean that it's your statement that is BS or if it is the content - please enlighten.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by alva
You go get them Ollie!!

That's why I joined the OT in the first place. But it sems I am never allowed to leave. They keep feeding me with all this BS

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Can't figure out if you mean that it's your statement that is BS or if it is the content - please enlighten.

Their statement is BS, my statement is sarcasm

[BlackCat]

Nice to know that there are some sanity left in you - only problem is that some people can say the same and be sincere, and maybe you could have been under some bad influence and lost your mind - it has happend before.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Why have checkpoints in a democracy enjoying full freedom?

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[alva]

Apparantly, Berlusconi (the prime minister of Italy*) is not happy.


* Don't you hate when they do that on the news?? If you don't know this, then chances are, you don't watch CNN or BBC world, right?