"Well I Don't Think It's Quite Fair to Condemn a Whole Program Because of a Single Slip Up Sir" *


New details emerge about the most recent Blackwater, um, "episode" in Baghdad:

¶A deadly cascade of events began when a single bullet apparently fired by a Blackwater guard killed an Iraqi man whose weight probably remained on the accelerator and propelled the car forward as the passenger, the man’s mother, clutched him and screamed.

¶The car continued to roll toward the convoy, which responded with an intense barrage of gunfire in several directions, striking Iraqis who were desperately trying to flee.

¶Minutes after that shooting stopped, a Blackwater convoy — possibly the same one — moved north from the square and opened fire on another line of traffic a few hundred yards away, in a previously unreported separate shooting, investigators and several witnesses say.

Oh, and it wasn't 11 deaths--it was 17, with 24 others wounded. But I guess it's good to know that wingnuttia won't let some forty more casualties (update: I meant to say "foreign, i.e., Iraqi civilian casualties") get in the way of the mess they're actively making in Mesopotamia.