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You know, it always struck me as odd how people can be so callous of the Iraqi wedding massacre. So here's my framing it in a more... contemporary light.
Basem Ishab Mohamed, the drummer, identified the organist as Mohaned, brother of a noted Baghdad wedding singer Hussein al-Ali, who also performed at the wedding. Both were killed when U.S. aircraft struck in the early hours of Wednesday, he said.
Earl McGraw: Well, give me the gory details, Son Number One.
Edgar McGraw: It's a goddamn massacre, Pop. They wiped out the whole wedding party, execution-style. And we're talking the whole shebang: Bride, Groom, Reverend, Reverend's wife... hell, they even shot that old colored fella that plays the organ.
Earl McGraw: It would appear someone objected to this union and wasn't able to hold their peace.
Mohamed and other witnesses said festivities ended on Tuesday at about 10:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT) when they said U.S. military aircraft began circling overhead. They surveyed the area for four hours before the deadly strike at about 3 a.m.
The Bride: How did you find me?
Bill: I'm the man
He returned in the morning to find more than 40 dead, including women, children and his fellow musicians.
Budd: That woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die.
The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.
Among those killed were 27 members of the same family, survivors said.
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. Now Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
Bill: masochistic.
"She lost her mother and father. Another family of eight lost six members. Another family lost four," he said. "It was just a wedding."
Copperhead: So I suppose it's a little late for an apology, huh?
The Bride: You suppose correctly.
Copperhead: You have every right to want to get even.
The Bride: No. To get even? Even-Steven? I would have to kill you, go upstairs to little Nikki's room, kill her, then wait for the good Doctor Bell to come home, and kill him. THAT'd be even. That'd be about square.
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