WARNING: US Troops Hazardous to Iraqi Civilian's Health & Safety

The American public is still dealing with news of the massacre at Haditha -- in which women, children and men were executed by U.S. Marines -- as we learn of yet another tragedy. The Associated Press reports that:

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.

Rushing a loved one to the hospital to give birth is an emotionally charged time. Jassim's brother, who was wounded by broken glass during the shooting, said he didn't see any warnings as he sped his sister to the hospital. Her husband was waiting for her there.

"I was driving my car at full speed because I did not see any sign or warning from the Americans. It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped," he said. "God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives."

BuzzFlash.com weighed in saying: "The war hawks will argue that the Marines were under intense pressure -- which they were -- and these 'sort of things' are to be expected in war. They will excuse the horrific actions as an inevitable outgrowth of a war without rules ... And they are right, you know ... Not that these GIs should be excused from accountability, but the real people who should be tried and sentenced are Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and Rice."

It's time for the administration to admit it made a huge mistake invading Iraq. It's time to remove from power the individuals who are roadblocks to resolving thidilemmana -- Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice. And it's past time to remove from power thindividualal who lied to the American public to justify getting the US into this quagmire -- George W. Bush.