When somebody is caught lying

"The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday he had dispatched a joint U.S.-Afghan team to investigate U.S. airstrikes that killed more than two dozen people in the western part of the country and prompted an outcry from Afghan officials. Although the International Committee of the Red Cross said women and children were killed in the U.S. strikes, Army Gen. David D. McKiernan told reporters in the capital it was too early to know exactly what had happened. "We're hopeful in the next couple of days we can have at least the initial truth," he said...Local villagers told Afghan officials that they put women, children and the elderly in several housing compounds that were struck by the U.S. planes, according to the Associated Press. McKiernan, however, hinted that the American airstrikes might not have been responsible for the deaths in Farah. "We have some other information that leads us to distinctly different conclusions about the cause of these civilian casualties," McKiernan said. He declined to provide more detailed information until the U.S.-Afghan team was able to investigate further."