On Notice


I really wish someone would call out wingnuttia on their utter faux concern for "the Iraqi people," particularly when every day it's clear as a goddamned bell that they couldn't be LESS concerned about them:

Two women died here on Tuesday when their white Oldsmobile was riddled by automatic gunfire from guards for a private security company, just weeks after a shooting by another company strained relations between the United States and Iraq...

Two witnesses said they heard a single shot first, which apparently punctured the Oldsmobile’s radiator, spilling coolant onto the street about 50 yards from where the convoy was parked. As the car continued rolling, the guards opened up with a barrage of sustained automatic fire. The car finally came to a stop about 10 yards from the convoy at a point that, three hours later, was marked by blood stains, broken glass and tufts of brown hair.

The plumbing shop employee said the convoy moved out right away, without checking to see what damage had been done or to offer medical help.

The Oldsmobile was towed to a nearby police station.

The priest and relatives near the scene identified the driver as Maruni Uhanees, 59, and the dead passenger as Jeniva Jalal, 30.

As twilight set in, family members gathered beside the car in a dirt alley outside the police station, staring at the blood and hair on the inside of the windshield.

A brother-in-law of the driver, Hrair Vartanian, said Ms. Uhanees was the mother of three grown daughters. As he spoke, one daughter arrived and looked at the blood stains, crying softly.

h/t WIIIAI and Attaturk.

Well, wingnuts, there's your triumph right there--two Armenian Christian women killed in cold blood by "private security contractors." In other words, you've managed to make things even worse in Iraq than they were under Saddam Hussein, and he made making things even worse something awfully goddamned difficult to attain.
Congratulations, you shits.