A Blather of Idiots

Right on cue, the great communist twit is screaming:

The Italian journalist wounded by US troops shortly after her month-long kidnap ordeal ended has fanned a growing diplomatic rift between Rome and Washington by suggesting the US soldiers deliberately tried to kill her.

Of course they did. Firing on a car, travelling at high speed toward a military check point while ignoring repeated warnings to stop, the classic tactic of just about every suicide car bomber in the Iraqi theatre? It’s obvious, obvious, I tell you, that they were after commie girl - personally. . .

Giuliana Sgrena, wounded when the convoy taking her to safety was riddled by US fire near Baghdad airport on Friday, said today she may have been a target because the Americans opposed negotiations with her kidnappers."Everyone knows that the Americans don't want hostages to be freed by negotiations, and for that reason, I don't see why I should rule out that I was their target," Sgrena told Sky Italia news channel.
I’m just wondering what parallel universe this woman inhabits. ‘We didn’t want negotiations for your release, so we’ll shoot you, in public, leaving lots of survivors to report back to Il Communisto central’. Yep - makes perfect sense to me.
The comment comes amid fears that Friday's incident, in which Italy's top intelligence officer in Iraq, Nicola Calipari, was killed, could lead to a full-scale diplomatic rift between the two allies.
Only if Italy is being run by people as unhinged as Giuliana.
The US military said their forces had given ample warning to the driver of Sgrena's car, which they said was approaching at speed when they opened fire, but Sgrena said they had not been travelling fast.
Oh – and Giuliana has absolutely no reason to lie about that, of course. The fact that she’s a journalist for the Italian communist daily Il Manifesto, and openly opposed to the US and everything about it, had no bearing whatsoever. Nope, absolutely no reason to slander the US there. That’s one credible witness, no doubt about it.

Friday's incident is likely to rekindle debate in Italy over when to withdraw its 3000-strong military contingent from Iraq . . .
Of course it is. And Sgrena’s Il Manifesto, among others, will make sure that it does.

While Sgrena's suspicion she may have been a target for US firepower was not generally shared by Italy's press today, an indignant La Stampa said the US government had been informed about her impending release.

So what? 'Impending' release? Is that the same as 'They're on their way'? Maybe in Giuliana's bizarro world. Had anyone told the troops at the check point exactly who was in the car speeding toward them? Was it identified in any way? And what was the idiot driver doing driving at a military checkpoint like that in the first place, especially given the known modus operandi of suicide car bombers?

Personally, I think the fact that the car wasn’t turned into a sieve, killing everyone inside, demonstrates some remarkable restraint on the part of the US soldiers involved. This was certainly a tragic mistake, but responsibility for it clearly rests with both sides, at the very least: a potential failure of communication among US forces (assuming the Italians had actually told them everything they needed to know, of course, which is one possible motive for the Italians' frankly bizarre outrage at what was clearly an accident); idiotically poor judgement from the Italian driver. And that’s it.

Apart from that, Giuliana Sgrena’s a garden variety lefty loon. Her comments about planned assassination attempts should be slotted among the cabbages, where they belong.

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