BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Angry residents of a village north of Baghdad fired into the air and chanted "God is greatest" as they buried the victims of a U.S. air strike that the country's Sunni leaders condemned as a massacre.
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The U.S. military said the air strike on the village of Jalameda, near Ishaqi, 90 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad on Friday targeted al Qaeda militants who had clashed with troops. It said 18 men and two women were killed.
But local officials in Jalameda said there were 17 victims and that they included six women and five children. Relatives showed the children's bodies to journalists.
And if CSI: Bloggerville plans to try to debunk this story, as they're so prone to do, Reuters has not only pictures, but video of the dead.
Do you see those smaller bodies wrapped in cloth, right-wing bloggers? Those supposed 'al Qaeda militants'? Those are children killed by a US airstrike. But y'all just pull our your Photoshop software and examine each pixel in agonizing detail while you try to find some sort of proof that this never happened. And when you post about it don't forget that, as is your usual manner, you must not write one word of sympathy for the victims. They don't matter. Only your sleuthing conclusions count. Those aren't actually people lying there dead on the ground. They're just groups of pixels that Reuters is obviously using to try and convince the rest of the world that there's violence going on in Iraq. How utterly obscene of them.
Maybe you should all just finally admit that you agree with one of your most revered mouthpieces and leave the rest of us who actually do care about what's going on there to cover these stories.
Do I care if the Sunnis and Shiites kill each other in Iraq? No. I don't care. Let's get our people out of there. Let them kill each other. Maybe they'll all kill each other, and then we can have a decent country in Iraq.
- Bill O'Reilly
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