"In doing so they would be making the worst possible mistake of their lives. Not only for themselves but for their communities and their country in general."

No doubt true, Teribus, but so what? That's what will happen. It always does. It happened in America when the British soldiers did the same thing didn't it?

There is a crying need for neutral observers who are able to tell it as it is, however it is. That's what the press is supposed to be able to do. Perhaps, with another three more Iraqis shot dead today by the soldiers occupying the school, some reporters or TV crews will stick around this time. Though maybe they are worried they might get shot too, and you couldn't blame them either, in the light of what has happened before now.

(Trading personal insults in a thread about something like this doesn't make too much sense. Better to do that in PMs, if it's got to be done at all.)