You had to know it would happen!

From Yahoo News:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials have altered their account of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saying he was alive and partly conscious after bombs destroyed his hideout, and an Iraqi man raised fresh questions about the events surrounding the end of Iraq's most-wanted militant.

Fresh?  How about stale and expected.

The man, who lived near the scene of the bombing, told AP Television News on Friday that he saw U.S. soldiers beating an injured man resembling al-Zarqawi until blood flowed from the victim's nose.

One guy and we are to take his word for it.  And who was this guy.  We don’t know.

"We frequently receive allegations which prove to be unsubstantiated," Gordon said.

Wait!  We have his name!

The Iraqi, identified only as Mohammed, said residents put a bearded man in an ambulance before U.S. forces arrived. He said the man was found lying next to an irrigation canal.

Mohammed.  Yeah, right.  Throw a stone into a crowd of 25 Iraqis and chances are it will bounce off of 20 Mohammeds before it hits the ground.

"He was still alive. We put him in the ambulance, but when the Americans arrived they took him out of the ambulance, they beat him on his stomach and wrapped his head with his dishdasha, then they stomped on his stomach and his chest until he died and blood came out of his nose," Mohammed said, without saying how he knew the man was dead.

Read:  He suffered substantial injuries and in their rush, the GI’s pulled his dishdash up to tend to his wounds.  They performed CPR until it was futile.

If you read further down, you get the idea:

Iraqi police pulled al-Zarqawi from the flattened home and placed him on a makeshift stretcher. U.S. troops arrived, saw that al-Zarqawi was conscious and tried to provide medical treatment, the spokesman said.

Al-Zarqawi "attempted to, sort of, turn away off the stretcher," he said. "Everybody re-secured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately thereafter from the wounds he'd received from this airstrike."

Caldwell has not mentioned any other physical interaction between U.S. troops and al-Zarqawi.

So much blood covered al-Zarqawi's body that U.S. forces cleaned him up before taking photographs.

"Despite the fact that this person actually had no regard for human life, we were not going to treat him in the same manner," Caldwell said.

And that, my dear readers, is the point.

Yes, on rare occasion, American soldiers might do something stupid and that is the exception.  A lot of GIs have rotated in an out of Iraq.  Only a handful have been accused of committing atrocities and there appears to be looming evidence that the Haditha incident was grossly exaggerated. 

The AP, with no regard for the truth, posts an account by some guy named Mohammed.  We don’t know who Mohammed is.  According to the article he "lived near the scene".  And Zarqawi felt safe in the neighborhood because why?  Could it be that Mohammed is also Al-Qaida?

I’m willing to bet that’s the case. 

The AP ran the story hoping to discredit the US Military.  Facts?  We don’t need no steeenking facts.

When is the world going to say to the Islamists that they need to protect human rights?  When is the world going to tell these barbarians that torture and beheadings are war crimes?

When is the world going to stand up against these people hell bent on taking away your rights?

When is the world going to tell the Islamists that we’ve gad enough of their crap?

In this war, let one American make a mistake and they want him or her hung.  Fair enough, as long as they hold the other side just as accountable.

They tell me we are better than that.  Fine, I accept that.  We are better than these pig-brained Islamists, but they play that to their advantage and frankly, I’m convinced we would have lost a lot less of our soldiers and been a lot further along if we could play a little bit rougher.  This double standard the left wants us held to is pure BS and costs us  more lives than it saves.

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