Berlusconi Disputes U.S. Report on Agent (pretends to)

[Algorem]

Berlusconi Disputes U.S. Report on Agent

Berlusconi Disagrees With U.S. Findings in Shooting Probe; Says Italy Won't Pull Troops From Iraq

ALESSANDRA RIZZO

Associated Press

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=730643

ROME - Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday that he disagreed with some of the U.S. military's conclusions into the March shooting death of an Italian agent in Baghdad, but he said those differences won't affect Italy's deployment of troops in Iraq or its friendship with Washington.

Berlusconi told lawmakers that it couldn't be ruled out that U.S. troops who fired on the agent's car from a checkpoint were to blame even if they fired mistakenly.

"Indeed, the lack of deliberate action doesn't rule out blame attributable to negligence, imprudence or even simple incompetence," Berlusconi told lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies three days after Italy issued its own report concluding that soldiers' inexperience, stress and fatigue played a role in the fatal shooting.

He also complained, as Italian investigators have, that the scene of the shooting wasn't left untouched, although Berlusconi added that "the impartiality and good faith of the U.S. investigators cannot be questioned."...

[Roland99]

1. "impartiality and good faith of the U.S. investigators cannot be questione

:puke:



Someone want to give Berlusconi some Altoids? His breath smells like the Propagandist's ass.

[gratuitous]

2. So, the perpetrators tampered with the crime scene

But Berlusconi says he cannot question the impartiality and good faith of the investigators. And I suppose all those Sicilian clubs really are social groups of legitimate businessmen.

[EFerrari]

3. You have to factor in the cultural difference lost in translation

One is indirection, for example, that makes all his denials sound like accusations if you know how to listen: "the impartiality and good faith of the US investigators cannot be questioned."

You have to plug in a kind of irony that we don't use much here.

[Algorem]

4. He should at least end those statements with "capice?" then,at least.

Bada-bing!Bada-bang!

[EFerrari]

5. That's right!

It's like that speech in "Julius Cesar" where Antony keeps repeating, "But these where HONORABLE men" -- the repetition inverts the meaning.

Maybe it's a Roman thing. :)

[Algorem]

6. Then he can't lose.The Italians will get it,the Americans won't,and Bush's

people could try to explain it to Bush,but he won't get it either.