So US troops killed some 46 Iraqis. The US press is calling all of them terrorists (or "assassins and thugs" in the precise language of Bush). Now if these were insurgents (and wearing the uniforms of Fida'iyyi Saddam, as the US government is claiming), why would they concentrate together in such larger numbers? The most basic rule of guerrilla warfare is to not concentrate in large numbers to create such an easy target for the enemy? But we are led to believe that those not only gathered together in large numbers, but dressed in recognizable uniforms to be easily identifiable for US troops. What are they going to tell us about them next? Will the US military now also claim that they had t-shirts carrying the signs:"We are Saddam's thugs and assassins"? Have you noticed that not a single US newspaper carried a skeptical story about them.

For a skeptical and different account of what happened, go here