In Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's deputy director of operations, later said: "While it is perhaps newsworthy that we show small, localized incidents, the entire tableau of the country of Iraq is far more than a couple of small, localized incidents. They are tragic. . . . We grieve for the families. We know what it's like to be those families. But the most important thing that those soldiers and those contractors would say today, they would tell us were they here today, 'Keep up the work. Don't disgrace us by buckling under to a small group of insurgents.' And we don't plan to."

Perhaps it is news worthy?????? PERHAPS?????????????????? Would you be so quick to say that if it was one of your family members burned, mutilated, dragged through the street and then hung from a bridge??????? Perhaps you would feel differantly??? Perhaps?