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2007-03-05 Europe
Italy still wants justice from U.S. for Iraq shooting
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Posted by Brett 2007-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 For phuechs sake. Recall the US Ambassador and threaten to close the US Embassy if these communists don't STFU and drop it!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-03-05 03:43||   2007-03-05 03:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeez. They really are pissed, aren't they? Next time our guys will shoot a little more accurately!
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2007-03-05 05:14|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-03-05 05:14|| Front Page Top

#3 And what about the ransom paid for the two Simonettas, and for that Sgrena woman, when they were kidnapped by insurgents... how many IEDs did that buy, and the blood of how many dead Iraqis and Americans is on Italian hands, Minister D'Alema? Answer me that... if you dare!
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-05 07:13|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com]  2007-03-05 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Time to cash in a chip with the Iraqis and have them issue warrants for the agents involved in providing bag money to the terrorists and conducting an independent operation without coordinating with the Coalition Authority in their sovereign territory.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-05 07:52||   2007-03-05 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe we should sneeringly suggest to Italy that they want us to pay Muslim blood money.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-05 10:14||   2007-03-05 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6  The U.S. military says the car carrying the Italians did not slow down but Italian prosecutors contest this.

Unless you were there, piss off.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-05 10:29||   2007-03-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't Giuliana Sgrena work her way through journalist school in a Korean whore house? Does this bitch looked scared to you?

The background on this pile of shit is amazing. Sgrena produced several versions of the shooting including the complete fabrication that Calipari "shielded her".

Check out the photos of her car. The same one she claimed had 300 bullets fired at it. Not to mention some bullshit story about tanks shooting too.
Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-05 10:33||   2007-03-05 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Bite me. Tell your spooks to stop at checkpoints, or more of them will get shot.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-03-05 11:20||   2007-03-05 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 What mojo said.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-05 11:24||   2007-03-05 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Whatever the truth is,...

Yeah, *bleep* the truth. It's the truthiness that counts.

IIRC, there was some Predator footage that contradicted the Italian version of the story.
Posted by SteveS 2007-03-05 12:07||   2007-03-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Close Aviano AB and bring the forces home. Close the Naples Naval Base and have the 6th Fleet home-port in Haifa, if Israel will allow us. Shut down the rest of US operations in Italy, and recall our Embassy staff. Slap a 15% tariff on all Italian goods. Ignore the screaming as their economy tanks, their unemployment goes up 10%, and their GDP actually shows a negative "increase". See if Prodi survives a "no-confidence vote" after THAT.

We spend too much time and energy appeasing Europe. They're not going to like us, no matter what we do. We've done the same thing to Europe that we did to the Middle East - shown them to be the idiots they are. That NEVER wins "hearts and minds". The only way we could possibly please Europe is to adopt Kyoto and allow it to destroy our economy, so the Europeans could snub us with impunity. Europe is a geriatric basket-case complicated by socialism and snobbery. They can FOAD.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-03-05 13:14|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-03-05 13:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Berlesconi was the only Italian PM in recent memory who was even close to rational. For that matter, Italy hasn't mattered much on the world stage since the Black Death landed there in 1348. Ignore Prodi and his stooges.
Posted by RWV 2007-03-05 13:47||   2007-03-05 13:47|| Front Page Top

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