Excuse me while I wipe the laughter tear from my eyes.

It all began last week when three men were killed during a search of a grain warehouse.  The men fired shots, the soldiers fired back.  Need we say more?  Apparently, the Iraqi Trade Ministry does:

The Trade Ministry furnished gory pictures to two Iraqi newspapers showing blood smeared along walls in a bedroom at the storage site. Ministry officials and victims’ families were quoted in the newspaper accounts as saying that the men were killed while they were asleep at about 5:10 a.m. One of the photos shows bloody sleeping bags.

Apparently in Iraq, a photo of blood on a sleeping bags proves that someone was killed in their sleep.

The U.S. military, however, says Iraqi special forces led the search. Military spokesman Capt. Charles Calio said U.S. Soldiers were at the scene only as advisers. He stressed that the men who were killed had fired their weapons at the Soldiers.

“The targeted individuals were not sleeping at the time of the attack; they were killed in an exchange of gunfire,” Calio said.

Any lawyer could argue that it’s just a technicality that it was actually the Iraqi special forces who led the search, right?.  The American troops were there.  Sue ‘em!

Why are we still in Iraq again?

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