Yahoo! News - Iraq Wedding Film Challenges U.S. on Air Strike
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - New video showing Iraqis singing and dancing at a desert wedding begged more questions on Monday about a U.S. air strike last week that killed about 40 people.

The U.S. military has insisted most of the dead were foreign guerrilla fighters who had slipped over the nearby Syrian border. Local people say the Americans massacred wedding guests.

Ultimately the truth may count for less than the perception; many Iraqis, exasperated by 14 months of occupation and by a scandal over the abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers, find it easy to believe a tale of American brutality or incompetence.

Deny, obfuscate, or just plain-old lies, that's the American way. Zero credibility on anything we claim anymore, and that is the ultimate danger. Even if we are telling the truth, we will never be believed.