This is sad news. The troops are jumpy and the driver of the vehicle didn't heed our warnings:

U.S. troops killed seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint Monday when the Iraqis' van would not stop as ordered, a military official said.

Two other civilians were wounded in the incident at a U.S. Army checkpoint on a highway near Najaf in southern Iraq, the official said. The military is investigating, he said.

The dead and wounded were among 13 women and children in a van that approached the checkpoint but did not stop, the official said. Soldiers fired warning shots and then shots into the vehicle's engine, neither of which stopped it, he said.

I'm sure the soldiers are aching over this. They did what they had to do and the results were tragic. I hope the media shows this as it really was; a horrific mistake.