Spc. Darrell Green

That's a name you should know - Specialist Darrell Green. He's the machine gunner who shot and killed the driver of that cement truck that was trying to blow up the Palestine Hotel the other day.

In an interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Sgt. 1st Class David Abrams said that for security reasons he couldn't say exactly where Green was in the complex during the attack. But he said Green had fired from an elevated position using an optic device that gave him a clear view of his machine-gun rounds hitting and killing the driver.

``He was trying to kill people,'' Green was quoted as saying. ``It was good we stopped him because he would have killed more people and destroyed the building.''

The MSM should be making a hero out of Specialist Green but they will probably ignore the story because it involves a US soldier doing a good job.

It should be noted that Al Qaida has taken credit for the attack and the question you may want to ask is why the Palestine Hotel? I think that hotel was a target because many foreign journalist stay there and their grisly death would have turned the media even more against the war. Al Qaida knows that their only slim hope is for the US media to get public opinion to the point where the troops have to be withdrawn. By not telling the story of Specialist Green and of the other heros in Iraq the MSM is doing Al Qaida's bidding.