"They are all children. They are not terrorists"

Is there any wonder why over 80% of Iraqis want us out of Iraq? What, are we killing them so they can have a phony 'democracy'? We've put our troops into a situation where they are now reacting to everything that moves and it leads to what happened here. Children killed as US troops fire on van at roadblock

"FIVE members of the same Iraqi family, three of them children under the age of 4, were shot dead yesterday when US troops opened fire on their minivan outside a military base, fearing a suicide car bomb attack. The family were returning from a funeral in Balad to nearby Baquba, north of Baghdad, when they came across a patrol of US military vehicles forming a roadblock near the base. “The soldiers started shooting at us from all over,” Ahmed Kamel al-Sawamara, 22, the driver, said at the hospital where the dead and three wounded were taken. “I slowed down and pulled off the road, but they continued firing. I saw my family killed, one after the other, and then the car caught fire. I dragged their bodies out.” The dead were two men and three children aged 1, 2 and 3, according to Mr al-Sawamarra, Iraqi police and hospital workers. Two women and a child were wounded. An American spokesman confirmed the shooting but put the toll at three dead and two wounded".