The reason that the US is instantly at fault in matters like these is that there are those who hate whatever administration is in power and want to see it fail, even at the expense of innocent people. There are others who hate America for political reasons, so America is alwaye wrong, even if they have to tell the most outrageous lies to achieve that goal.

I am not saying that the US, the Bush Administration, or anyone else is perfect, but I have noticed over the years that we are always persumed guily by certain groups even if proven innocent. This incident could be investigated by Saddam himself and if the US was found to be not at fault, there are those who would stridently complain that it was a whitewash job.

I have seen several different accounts of the incident. In one Ms Sgrena said that they were going slow and in an earlier account that they were going so fast that the driver was having trouble keeping the car on the road. I don't reacll if she said the road was wet or not.

Then theres the questiom of the tank. If a tank had fired it's cannon at the car and hit it, there would have been NO survivors. I am sure that everyone has seen, over the past years, light vehicles hit by tank fire and no, an armored Humvee is not a tank. It doesn't even look like a tank.

I post my own conspiracy theory at this point. It all happened according to any one of a half-dozen possible scenarios and Ms. Sgrena saw an opportunity to blacken the US eye and increase her own standing in the anti-American media community. A win-win situation for her unless she can be proven a liar.

From the different stories she's been telling, that may not be too difficult.

We shall see.

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BTW Wolfgang, the fact that she writes for a moderate German magazine doesn't negate her stated political leanings. And the German Govt. didn't pay the ransom.

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