Approaching an intersection guarded by U.S. troops...

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/iraq/bal-te.claims11oct11,0,3642609.story

Civilian deaths costly for U.S.

Iraqis' claims usually rejected, fueling hostility
By David Wood | Sun reporter
October 11, 2007

WASHINGTON - On a dusty street in Samarra, a bustling city north of Baghdad, two brothers, 10 and 12, are carrying plastic bags of groceries home from the market. Approaching an intersection guarded by U.S. troops, they strip off their white undershirts and wave them in the air as they cautiously venture across. Suddenly, shots.

Down goes the 10-year old, his stomach ripped by bullets. Down goes the 12-year-old with his stomach shot away.

This snapshot, as documented by Iraqi witnesses, is the mundane and perhaps inevitable collision between Iraqi civilians and heavily armed troops who are maneuvering, against a shadowy enemy, entirely within a civilian world of schoolchildren, bustling markets and traffic jams.

[Selatius]

1. This is how we lost Iraqi support.

For many Iraqis, it's rather simple. They hate us because one of our troops killed someone they loved once.

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2. I think Shock and Awe was enough to make most Iraqis hate the living shit out of us

I know it would have been enough for me in that situation.

Don

[kurth]

3. And Congress is giving Bush more money to do this shit