“It may be worse than Abu Ghraib.”
That’s a senior U.S. military official explaining to The Washington Post how strongly Iraqis are reacting to Blackwater’s September 16th shooting of civilians in Baghdad. By contrast, here’s a State Department official: “The bottom line of this is that we recognize that there’s an issue here.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179781