Video shows it WAS a wedding!!

[Sparkly]

By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer

RAMADI, Iraq - A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people. The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack

[MikeG]

1. Did they do the Hokey Pokey and the Chicken Dance?

[Undercutter]

2. get your story straight

it was a GAY WEDDING, that's why bush ordered the airstrike in the first place

[Sparkly]

There was dancing.

This was a horrible tragedy.

The singing and dancing seems to go on forever at the all-male tent set up in the garden of the host, Rikad Nayef, for the wedding of his son, Azhad, and the bride Rutbah Sabah. The men later move to the porch when darkness falls, apparently taking advantage of the cool night weather. Children, mainly boys, sit on their fathers' laps; men smoke an Arab water pipe, finger worry beads and chat with one another. It looks like a typical, gender-segregated tribal desert wedding.

As expected, women are out of sight - but according to survivors, they danced to the music of Hussein al-Ali, a popular Baghdad wedding singer hired for the festivities. Al-Ali was buried in Baghdad on Thursday.

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3. Hey man, "bad people have celebrations too"

What is this "bad people, good people" bullshit? First I had to listen to Ben Stein this morning rehash that mantra about 12 times. Now Kimmitt?

The rationale, apparently, is they're bad people because we bombed the hell out of them. What a pantload.

[DrBB]

4. If so, having denied it

...is gonna hurt a lot worse than if they'd just admitted it and said "Sorry" in the first place.

I sometimes think they couldn't possibly be as incompetent as they seem, that it must all be on purpose, all these ridiculous blunders. I mean, nobody with a reasonable degree of education and wits about them could be this bad at running things unless it was on purpose for some reason. Could they?

[Sparkly]

6. I know what you're saying

It is just beyond all belief.

[Must_B_Free]

5. Incontrovertable proof