You SHOULD tell us all you are sorry for making so many and repeated false claims indicating proven lies on the part of Bush(you COULD do this while maintaining your strong belief that you are correct).
I SHOULD apologize?!!! You're seriously demented!
There is blood on the hands of your president. He started a war based on lies and distorted truths. People are dying left and right while Saddam runs loose and OBL's career is on the ascendent. You're denial is chilling. How many more have to die before you figure it out.....before you admit that you were wrong?!! How many more buildings does al Qaeda have to blow up before you realize the enemy was/is OBL and not Saddam.
<font color=blue>Stupid is as stupid does!<font color=black>
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American-Appointed Iraqi Council Leader Killed
By Anthony Shadid and Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 10, 2003; 10:50 AM
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 -- Iraqis marched in anger through the streets here today after the killing of an American-appointed local Iraqi council leader by U.S. military guards under disputed circumstances.
Separately, the U.S. command here reported the death of an American military police officer who was attacked by a rocket propelled grenade while on patrol 40 miles south of Baghdad Sunday evening.
November -- only ten days old -- has now claimed 37 American lives. It's been the deadliest month since formal combat ceased in May.
The shooting of the Iraqi leader illustrated the inherently sensitive and increasingly tense relationship between the American occupiers here and Iraqis installed by the United States in official positions.
The council was appointed by U.S. authorities here to help govern Sadr City, an impoverished, largely Shiite section of Baghdad with a population of about 2 million people. American troops guard the council offices.
The council leader, Muhammed Kaabi, was approaching the council offices in a car Sunday.
American authorities and local witnesses agreed that he got into some sort of argument with soldiers who wanted to search the car he was driving. They agreed as well that at some point he got out of his car.
They disagree about what happened next, however. A U.S. spokesman here said the victim went for the weapon of one of the American guards and was shot by a second soldier in response.
"The driver continued to fight and wrestled the soldier to the ground while still attempting to pull the weapon from the soldier," a military statement reported by the Associated Press said.
"The other soldier shot the driver in the upper leg. The driver was evacuated to a nearby military hospital where he died of his wounds. The incident is under investigation."
Local witnesses said there was indeed a warning shot but reported no attempt by the leader to seize a weapon from the soldier.
Whatever the truth, the hundreds of mourners who carried the coffin through the streets draped with an Iraqi flag were blaming the Americans. They chanted and wailed and carried signs condemning the soldiers.
The level of violence against U.S. operations in the so-called "Sunni Triangle" north and west of Baghdad prompted Gen. John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command, to meet during the weekend with mayors and tribal leaders of Anbar province, the Associated Press reported this morning, quoting an Iraqi, Fallujah Mayor Taha Bedawi, who attended the meeting.
The Associated Press quoted Bedawi as saying that Abizaid pointed to Fallujah, one of the main towns in the Sunni Triangle, as a "hot area." Abizaid warned that if the city refuses to cooperate "in the rebuilding process," there "might be another policy."
Anthony Shadid reported from Baghdad.
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