Tracy,

>However, it is absolutely ridiculous to assume that a driver of any vehicle going through or approaching a checkpoint does NOT know to stop at the checkpoint.

Watching BBC News last night, they told that JUST NOW they'll put warning signal writen in arab at the checkpoints. If US troops are scared with the suicide bombers, the Iraqi people are even more scared with the US troops. The US troops should act as soldiers, the Iraqi civilians are victims.

Of course I don't think it was premeditated, it just shows how not psycologically prepaired some US troops are.

Of course some mad ones and some sadic ones must be found in the US troops, as well. That's part of that insane thing called war. Poor Iraqi civilians that are suffering the inferno the coallition is imposing them. I stopped pointing to news about this, because it was becoming boring, if that can be labeled "boring". FYI just now came to me (while writing this message) the information that a maternity was bombed in Baghdad (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2494845). How would you feel if your kid was in there?

Fernando