Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked the UN to launch an investigation into the US shooting of Guiliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist. Here's the story.
US troops have killed a lot of innocent people in Iraq. But most of them were Iraqi civilians. Middle Easterners. On Friday, while US troops only wounded Sgrena, they killed an Italian, a member of the secret service who died protecting Sgrena. His name was Nicola Calipari. He was a husband and a father. His brother is a priest. Nicola's dead now. His wife is without a husband, his son without a father.
It's significant that RSF is asking the UN, not the US, to investigate. Smart move. Because the US doesn't want the truth. They can't handle the truth, as Jack Nicholson famously sneered. This fear of the truth is why we continue to oppose the International Criminal Court. It's the same reason any criminal opposes a court: because it will find them guilty.
We have a lot of blood on our hands, folks. And now it's European blood.
For those of you who may be fans of Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, Peter Jennings, or any of the Fox team, don't worry. They won't be shot at. Because they quit trying to report the truth a long, long time ago.