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American soldiers in Iraq this week killed a 14 year old Iraqi and several other civilians and wounded several children after being attacked by Islamic terrorists.

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- When insurgents attacked an American convoy with AK-47 rounds and a couple of grenades on a dusty highway in a Baghdad suburb this week, U.S. soldiers returned fire, chased the suspects through narrow alleyways and raided houses.

Tuesday's clash killed two Iraqi adults and a 14-year-old and wounded four people, including two children.. . . .

When the shooting subsided, another confrontation began. A senior Iraqi army commander who arrived at the scene concluded that the Americans had fired indiscriminately at civilians and ordered his men to take the U.S. soldiers into custody. The U.S. military said the soldiers had acted in self-defense and had sought to avoid civilian casualties; U.S. commanders at the scene persuaded the Iraqis to back down.. . . . . . . .

"What happened is a crime," the Iraqi commander said Friday during a brief interview in his office. "Civilians were killed."

The commander and a senior Iraqi police official, who also characterized the American response as a "crime," spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing ministry regulations that bar them from speaking to the news media without written approval.

Maj. David Shoupe, a U.S. military spokesman, said the two slain men were assailants.

"The response of the [U.S.] patrol was within the rules of engagement, appropriate and proportionate to the attack on them," Shoupe said in an e-mail. "It is important to note that the patrol used aimed fire to kill their two attackers -- stopping the attack that could have resulted in many more [U.S.] and Iraqi deaths."

Hospital and police officials said the two wounded children were 9 and 12.

Conflicting accounts of attacks involving U.S. forces in Iraq are common, and versions are often skewed by how the troops are viewed in the area."

There was not a peep out of the left, out of the peace left, out of the mainstream media, out of Bill Maher, out of the corrupt John Murtha over these killings.

What this tells us is what we already knew -- the left, liberals generally, and especially the Democrats who attacked President Bush relentlessly and unremittingly for five long years over Iraq don't give a hoot about Iraqi civilians, peace or the spilling of blood whether for democracy or oil.

What they care about is power -- hence portraying Republican presidents and his supporters as subhuman morons -- and bashing their own country.  Proving America guilty so that they don't have to face the fact that millions of Islamic fanatics have declared war on us.

For the rest of us, our soldiers are doing a heroic job defending the freedom of Iraqis and Americans and Muslims. Civilians die normally in war. Only self-hating leftists would use that fact to attack their own country when it is fighting in a noble cause against Islamic Nazis who want to kill infidels and establish a totalitarian theocracy.

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