When "oops" just doesn't cut it.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

This has been the issue that's bothered me the most: we ALL agree that barreling toward a U.S. checkpoint in wartime is beyond foolish. So, either they weren't speeding (as they claim) or they were, which makes NO SENSE. Were they being chased? It just doesn't read right to me. Or smell right, either.

The link I posted explains that the road they were on is considered the most dangerous road in the world. Were I traveling such a road, I'd be going damned fast. It doesn't make sense to me that they were out for a nice, leisurely drive in the Iraqi countryside post-release. I don't have a lot of faith in anything the defense department puts out, but neither do I have any any reason to believe this person, whose very presence in such a dangerous place cost one man his life, and whose release has funded who knows how many more violent acts.