As The Iraqis Stand Up…

1:06 am EST June 21st, 2006 | Politics | 7 Comments

… they’ll shoot our soldiers

Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found.

The deaths of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr. and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson were originally attributed to an ambush during a patrol near Balad, Iraq, on June 22, 2004.

But the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command found that one or more of the Iraqis attached to the American soldiers on patrol fired at them, a military official said Tuesday.

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7 Responses to “As The Iraqis Stand Up…”

  1. TomY says:
    June 21, 2006 at 9:06 am

    Three more years of this failure, of this waste, of this pointless death. That’s the Bush plan. Why should America stand for it?

  2. midderpidge says:
    June 21, 2006 at 10:06 am

    Two years of covering this up. I wonder how many more attacks against our troops came from our Iraqi Allies.

  3. Frank_D says:
    June 21, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Nadia McCaffrey [said] “I really want this story to come out; I want people to know what happened to my son,” she said. “There is no doubt to me that this (ambushes by attached Iraqi units) is still happening to soldiers today.”
    This is exactly what Ann Coulter was talking about.
    No matter how grief stricken that woman is, she has no corroboration for an accusation that “ambushes by attached Iraqi units are still happening to soldiers today.”
    Yet, midderpidge chimes in with “Two years of covering this up”

  4. Frank_D says:
    June 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., pressed the Pentagon for answers about the case when Nadia McCaffrey was unsatisfied by explanations from the military.
    The fact that Ms. McCaffrey was usatisfied with explanations, means there were explanations

    Multiple explanations does not equal a cover – up.
    Nor does one incident make a pattern.

    Next!

  5. buma says:
    June 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    I see that, since 2004, the liberal press has squelched this ‘happy’ news story of Iraqis learning how to take over policing their country.
    They must really hate America.

  6. duros62 says:
    June 21, 2006 at 5:06 pm

    Multiple explanations of the same incident that change every time, while maybe not evidence of a cover-up, sure smells fishy to me, Frank.
    This incident + Haditha, while maybe not evidence of a pattern, sue smells fishy to me.
    And I don’t think this incident is what (M)Ann coulter was talking about. The pissed-off mother of a dead soldier who want’ to know the TRUTH about what happened to her son is not the same as Coulter’s assertion that 9-11 widows are attention whores (of course, it would take one to know one, right?).

  7. Frank_D says:
    June 22, 2006 at 7:06 am

    Multiple explanations of the same incident that change every time, while maybe not evidence of a cover-up, sure smells fishy to me, Frank.
    So?

    This incident + Haditha, while maybe not evidence of a pattern, sue smells fishy to me.
    So?

    Coulter s assertion that 9-11 widows are attention whores
    What I said was:

    This is exactly what Ann Coulter was talking about.
    No matter how grief stricken that woman is, she has no corroboration for an accusation that  ambushes by attached Iraqi units are still happening to soldiers today.

    Whether or not Coulter said the Jersey Girls were attention whores, that was not her point. It was about their use by liberals to feign authenticity.

    And, unlike you, I have read the book, not just a few quotes. (Aside: A truly inquisitive person might wonder what’s in a book of 280 pages, when only less than a half a dozen pages are getting any attention, speaking of cover -ups.)