These images from a shootout in Iraq are sure to escalate the anti-American feelings even more, but I am taking the soldiers' side on this one. It's easy to second-guess the soldiers' actions sitting in the comfort of our homes. To be fair, they did try to get the car to stop by using hand signals and by firing warning shots. They also did the right thing in administering first aid to the injured children and taking them to the hospital (how difficult would it have been for them to continue pumping bullets into the car 'just to be sure'?).

The people who should be charged for this crime (if anybody should be charged at all) are not the soldiers; it's rather the people who sent them to Iraq in the first place.

As has already been mentioned elsewhere, the image of the little girl is bound to go down in history as one of the enduring images of the war and the suffering caused by it.