many of you who are so outraged probably don't even give a flying shit. are you going to do something about it? donate money, food, time, services, etc to help the iraqi people, or are you going to piss and moan about the bush administration and their 'illegal war' on some message board? your mock outrage is so transparent.
and blaming the soldiers is bullshit. if you don't stop at a checkpoint, don't expect them to just wag their fingers at you and say 'naughty.' these guys have seen car bombs and gun men do the same type of shit and take out some of their close friends. these soldiers want to make it home to their wives and family just as bad as anyone else, so if you think they are going to risk their lives for someone doing the same thing, intentionally or not (how are the supposed to know?), that took out some of their buddies, think again.
unfortunate it happened? yes, but that's the environment over there right now.