Reply #20: You lost me here... [View All]

"If she were a "human shield," they wouldn't have shot in the first place, right? Unless they didn't mind killing the hostage. But she was shot. And just because someone is shot and lives doesn't mean that the shooter intended that they live. Quite the contrary."

If she were a human shield, and the US soldier's choice was to shoot her or get shot, then they would have shot her. Sometimes people are in a situation where they do things out of necessity (survival) that they do not want to do. Certainly if their intention was to kill her, then they probably would have been able to accomplish that. They did kill several people there already, who was going to stop them?

If the reporter from the Minneapolis St. Paul News was there at the time of the shooting, then he must be in on the cover up. If he wasn't, then why would the military mention this to reporters AT ALL. It seems like quite a few people died that day, I'm sure they could have successfully covered up 3 deaths, at least for a few days.

I'm not saying I trust the "official" story, and the further up the chain of command you get, the less inclined I am to believe the "official" version, but I don't tend to infer that anytime someone gets shot in Iraq it's necessarily because of incompetence or some nefarious plan.