I put Middle Earth Journal in hiatus in May of 2008 and moved to Newshoggers.
I temporarily reopened Middle Earth Journal when Newshoggers shut it's doors but I was invited to Participate at The Moderate Voice so Middle Earth Journal is once again in hiatus.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

We didn't do it

Of course not. We never do it. It's always somebody else's fault, or "an unfortunate accident."

Soldiers not at fault in Italian's death

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. military investigation has cleared American troops of any wrongdoing in the shooting death last month of an Italian security agent in Baghdad, according to a senior Pentagon official.

The agent's death strained relations between the United States and Italy, two stalwart allies in the Iraq war.

The U.S. soldiers involved will face no disciplinary actions, the Pentagon official said Monday.

You may remember that Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was also in the car, having just been released from a month of captivity by kidnappers. Her version of the story (and that of others in the car) has always been slightly different than the official US position. Her reaction seems to indicate that her opinion hasn't changed.

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Sgrena reacted strongly to the reported findings of the U.S. military investigation. "It is worse that I thought," she said. "Now they're saying it is not their fault."
Remember... no matter what happens, aside from blaming a few low ranking "bad apples", nothing we ever do in Iraq is our fault. It's those ingrates that we "liberated" and our so called allies from "Old Europe" who are the root of all evil.

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