Why what's going on in Iraq needs to end, and the Neocons can do it. All they have to do is admit they might be wrong. And I'll be elected the next Pope.

Around 10 p.m. Thursday, Mohammed Kubaisi, 12, was fatally shot in the chest on the roof of his home in Baghdad by a U.S. soldier.
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According to the U.S. military, what the soldier saw was a figure in the darkness carrying an AK-47 automatic rifle and moving across the roof of the house, with exposed U.S. soldiers below. The U.S. forces recovered the weapon when they searched the house after the shooting, according to Maj. Sean Gibson, a military spokesman.
A military investigation is underway, but the results are already moot for many residents of Baghdad. In their mind, the killing was gratuitous. Even some Iraqis who initially welcomed the U.S. occupation see the boy's death as another grievance against U.S. forces.
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"The bullet that shot Mohammed will be worth a million bullets," said Mohammed's mother, in a veiled threat of revenge, after she emerged from the home, staggering and supported by family members.

U.S. officials said they did not want to engage in an argument with the family and offered a bare-bones account of the event -- as they do with most incidents involving U.S. forces.

The family members have offered an emotional account of what they see as U.S. brutality, further poisoning an atmosphere in which U.S. troops are being killed almost daily.

It is the family's story that is now circulating in the al-Jihad neighborhood of west Baghdad and beyond.