Yes, yes, someone should get it big for this one. I mean, after all, what kind of an incompetent droob would fire on an unidentified, rapidly incoming vehicle that is barreling toward your checkpoint while ignoring warnings, flashing lights and warning shots, all in a country where a great many of your comrade's deaths have been the result of... car bombings! The obviously trigger-happy Yankee gunslingers should all be slapped in the face and court martialled for not standing idly by, eating cupcakes, and allowing the suspicious vehicle to ram them, as any well trained, non-evil, non-American soldier would do; am I not right? The thought of these war mongers raising their murderous weapons in acts of... ahem, "self defense," must be stopped immediately.
I do apologize for the snarkiness, but this irritates the hell out of me. The immediate and grossly reactionary urge to blindly point fingers at the U.S. servicemen who had no info on the car and tried everything they could do before finally resorting to desperate self-preservation measures is ludicrous. I can imagine the Propaganda Gnomes’ little palms getting all sweaty in anticipation of twisting this into even more "Bush is evil and this is why!" rhetoric. As Cartman says, "Lame...."
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