“The BBC’s defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan has cast doubt on whether the missile that killed two journalists in Baghdad today was fired by a US tank, speculating that Iraqi soldiers may have launched the lethal attack. Three other Reuters journalists and an Abu Dhabi TV staff member were injured when an explosion hit their room on the 15th floor of the hotel. “I may be right in saying we’re hearing from central command that they’re starting to retract their apology for this incident,” Gilligan told Radio 5 Live’s drivetime show. He added that after examining the scene he concluded it was virtually impossible for the US tank to have fired on the 15th floor room. “I have to say I rather doubt it and, having been underneath it and looking up now just before it got dark at the hole again in the side of the hotel, I still doubt it. “For a start the damage to the hotel is superficial, it’s only the masonry that’s been torn off in a very small area, a tank shell would have done more damage I feel. “Secondly the angle that the tank would have to have reached to hit that roof, it would more or less have had to have shot just round the corner and I don’t think even the Americans have got those kinds of weapons.”
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Oh but how the liberal media is hoping and praying it’s the fault of the U.S. The moment it happened, the international media began pointing at the American forces and quickly the blame was absorbed into every report without verification or confirmation. This was it. Finally the world will see that the Bush administration, in a moment of frustration with the negative coverage by the foreign press, has decided to take military action against them. I can almost picture the drool on Katie Couric’s chin. Tom Daschle and John Kerry were probably toasting each other and singing “another one bites the dust”.

But wait, hold the presses…. the first report may have been slightly wrong. Imagine the dismay at CNN to learn that it may have in fact been some of Saddam’s own people that did this. Those sweet, loving, Iraqi Republican Guard characters. But, but, but….it HAS to be Bush….it HAS to be…..

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and in other news, Iraqis are violently protesting in the streets in complete defiance of the U.S. military. They’re looting and shouting in a fit of anarchy. Way to go, Bush, you’ve replaced a terrible regime with a land of anarchy. What do you have to say for yourself now? Tom, John where’s the chilled champagne? This is the big one. The Bush administration is going to pay for this tragic miscalculation! Just look for yourself and feel the hatred of the Iraqis…..

“I’m 49, but I never lived a single day,” said Yusuf Abed Kazim, a Baghdad imam who pounded the statue’s pedestal with a sledgehammer. “Only now will I start living. That Saddam Hussein is a murderer and a criminal.”

Yes, liberals, these are the people that would still be jailed, tortured, brutalized and terrorized if you had gotten your way. Yes, protestors, these are the people you so sincerely fought to keep under the control of a madman. Yes, arabs, these are your neighbors getting the first taste of freedom and justice. God bless America! God bless George W. Bush! God bless our troops!