Done and Dusted

I agree with John Aravosis' quick summation--if there was any goodwill left in Iraq to coalition (read: US) forces, this is the capper on top of the Haditha revelations that crushes it dead.

U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday.

Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

Jassim, the mother of two children, and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, were killed by the U.S. forces, according to police Capt. Laith Mohammed and witnesses.

Oh, by the by, the President says he's "troubled" by the Haditha allegations. "I'm mindful that there's a thorough investigation going on. If in fact, laws were broken, there will be punishment."