To be fair, during the Centcom briefing, they stated that they had analyzed the bomb site (via satellite probably?) and the signs did not indicate a coalition bomb, but rather an Iraqi missile. They stated that nothing pointed towards coalition munitions at the site. Now, without experts on the ground, it is difficult to determine positively I'm sure, but that is what was stated in the briefing today. No source is more reliable than the other. It is tragic, true, but you cannot put blame entirely on the U.S. in this case until evidence is there substantiating it. The media report does not provide evidence, nor did the centcom briefing. Mistakes happen in war, but at least it is not intentional as is Saddam's brutality.

As to how I would feel if my child was there, well probably the same way the families of those killed 9/11/2001 felt as well as the families of the servicemen killed by the vehicle carrying the bomb in the taxi at the roadblock, and the families of the wounded civilians in the vehicle that were shot while running a roadblock. Neither is more tragic than the other. War is brutal.


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