I think you're grabbing at straws with your comparison. It's preposterous to compare modern situations to those of 1862. Or perhaps you're trying to say that President Bush will be compared to the likes of Lincoln in 150 years?


First, I agree that it's highly dangerous for people to congregate around a still burning US military vehicle -- I personally would run the other way. However, this was NOT a battle. The people around the vehicle were not responsible for the vehicle being on fire. They were gawkers / bystanders, many of them children.

Such indiscriminate killing is doing nothing to win the hearts and minds of the liberated Iraqis.