No evidence of a wedding? Hmmm, shall we believe a disinterested observer like General Kimmitt, or some so-called "survivor" with an axe to grind?

"At about 3am, we were sleeping and the planes started firing," said one of the mourners who spoke to AP last week and who gave his name only as Bassem. "They fired more than 40 missiles. As soon as they started attacking, firing the first missile, I went away. I was running ... there are no fighters. These are lies. There's no resistance. Even the bride and the groom died."

Haleema Shihab, 32, one of the three wives of wedding party host Rikad Nayef, said she and her stepdaughter hid in a bomb crater.

US soldiers appeared on the scene shortly after the bombardment. One of them kicked her to see if she was alive. "I pretended I was dead so he wouldn't kill me," she said, adding that the soldier was laughing.

Fourteen-year-old Moza, Ms Shihab's stepdaughter, lies on another bed of the hospital room. She was hurt in the leg and cries. Her relatives haven't told her yet that her mother, Sumaya, is dead.

In all, 27 members of Rikad Nayef's extended family - most of them children and women - were killed in the attack, according to surviving family members.

[link|http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1223564,00.html|source]

It would be entertaining to watch Little Phil dance along this branch a little further, but when a sufficient number of contradictions accumulate he tends to...change...the...subject.

cordially,