This of course was to be expected and is the flip side of Dumbya'a "cheering crowds." Soldiers justifiably paranoid in a strange land of suicide bombers and a native people feeling the pressures of a new control, this time by American troops. Who fired first? Does it matter? The blame falls at the top. It comes down on Iraqi leadrs unable to calm their people and on an American president who has put both groups in an untenable situation. Rest assured, it will happen again.

Spaw