Sunday, March 06, 2005

Milking it for what its worth

Okay, in case you hadn't heard, there was an Italian being held hostage in Iraq. The Iraqis who were holding her, released her. She was in a car that was speeding toward a U.S. military checkpoint, when the U.S. military tried to signal for her car to slow down. The car's driver didn't get the point, so the U.S. military shot at the car, killing one and wounding another passenger.
Now the hostage is saying the U.S. military deliberately tried to kill her.
So, we did try to kill her. We didn't know it was her. We tried warning the car. They ignored, or did not see the warnings. Now there is a huge hoopla over it.

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My take: I am going to attribute her behavior to the great trauma of her ordeal, not her own immaturity (though I am sorely tempted.) It sounds like she's trying to milk her ordeal for as much as she can get.

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