This much is agreed upon: at least six Iraqis died overnight Saturday when American attack helicopters pounded a cluster of homes in a dusty, nondescript neighborhood on the northern outskirts of Baghdad.

The US military said

…. the dead were insurgents and the homes in the Husseiniya district probably served as weapons depots

The Iraqis who live there said that

The bodies pulled from the rubble, locals say, were ordinary parents killed with their children in the middle of the night. Locals counted 11 corpses - two men, two women, and seven children. Another 10 were injured.

Sorry guys, there have been too many lies, too many cover ups, and too many fabrications; and the fact that “Roadblocks erected around the neighborhood prevented reporters from reaching the scene” makes it all the more suspicious.

The article notes the following statement from Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly

“The adversary is ruthless and puts no value on human life and will endanger innocent civilians - women, children - by hiding and cowering in buildings they take over,”

Lets agree on something else, the U.S. military is also ruthless and puts no value on Iraqi life and will endanger innocent - women, children - by bombing from on high the absolute shit out of anything that they can claim an insurgent might be, once have, or could at some possible time in the future, hide in.

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