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>>Saying "it is reported that" pretty much means nothing. In the case Terry cited it was used to claim hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties from American airstrikes and comparing this to the Luftwaffe attack on Guernica. Just didn't seem to pass any kind of burden of proof ( which should be on the accuser ) Guernica has passed the test of history. We'll have to wait and see about Faludja.
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>A friend of our family was with the U.S. Army on the final push to Berlin. His unit was taking 1000 S.S. prisoners a day before they saw the first camp. After that they never took another S.S. prisoner before they got to Berlin.

This comment is quite germane after yesterday's shocking footage of a US marine summarily dispatching an unarmed and wounded insurgent. And the day before's of an unseen wounded insurgent "getting his" on the other side of a wall