Meh. I don't think my point came across very well. I was just trying to express the notion that it is ridiculous to think that a country could become involved in any "war" in the middle east (where terrorism is an extremely common method of making a point) without finding that same terrorism creeping into your own backyard. That's it. The dead have my sympathy, but not my suprise. And to stop this thread from turning into a flame war, I'm leaving now.
Gawd, it would be so awesome to be at the place of the blow-up... I would give my right, erhm no left arm, to survive such a thing....
I hate to take this thread into the wrong direction, but I simply cannot let such a blatant lie slip through unchallenged. A minimum of 41,000 U.S. Army soldiers and Marines felt that by the end of 2003 they had each killed at least one innocent Iraqi civilian. By adding in the unrepresented deaths caused by Navy and Air Force personnel (who were responsible for the bombing missions during the invasion) as well as the civilian deaths occuring over the last year and half after the initial survey, the figures increase dramatically. Easily, over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians may have been killed by coalition forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_conflict_in_Iraq_since_2003 So, in brief, in Iraq, the innocent are being killed by the insurgency... and the coalition.