President Bush: Is He a Liar?

I'm not worried about a couple of billion spent on beer and strippers.

I'm worried about the $500 billion spent on killing people....

I see the money going towards keeping people alive and free.

Reining in Iraq's official and unofficial armies is the most urgent task confronting Iraq's new leaders. In speeches and private conversations, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki says he intends to clamp down on the death squads operating within the Iraqi government, and to disarm the militias that provide the street muscle for Iraq's political parties.

That presages an enormous political battle, one that extends beyond the Interior Ministry's police officers and paramilitary soldiers.

A larger and possibly more decisive struggle looms to disarm myriad other armed groups, including the Shiite militias, most of them answerable to the Shiite political parties that dominate the new government.

The US authorities in Iraq are trying to step up pressure on Iraqi politicians to tackle the power of armed militia groups, increasingly seen as one of the main sources of instability and violence.

A senior US military official has called for the Iraqi government to adopt a clearer policy on militias, which the US embassy now dubs "armed gangs", underlining recent criticism of such groups by the US ambassador

You only see the money being spent on killing people. I see the money going towards keeping people alive and free.

Even in a country beset by murder and death, the 16th Brigade represented a new frontier.

U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer

Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on Friday.

The soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of raping.

Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of coalition troops in Baghdad, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged killing of a family of four in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. It did not elaborate.

"The entire investigation will encompass everything that could have happened that evening. We're not releasing any specifics of an ongoing investigation," said military spokesman Maj. Todd Breasseale.

"There is no indication what led soldiers to this home. The investigation just cracked open. We're just beginning to dig into the details."

However, a U.S. official close to the investigation said at least one of the soldiers, all assigned to the 502nd Infantry Regiment, has admitted his role and has been arrested. Two soldiers from the same regiment were slain this month when they were kidnapped at a checkpoint near Youssifiyah.

At least four other soldiers have had their weapons taken away and are confined to Forward Operating Base Mahmoudiyah south of Baghdad. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

The official said the killings appear to be unrelated to the kidnappings but that a soldier felt compelled to report the killings after his fellow soldiers' bodies were found.

The killings appeared to have been a "crime of opportunity," the official said. The soldiers had not been attacked by insurgents but had noticed the woman on previous patrols.

AP correspondent Ryan Lenz is embedded with the 101st Airborne Division in Beiji, Iraq. He was previously embedded with the 502nd Infantry Regiment in Mahmoudiyah.

BUT MOST IMPORTANT- Are you saying that the leaders of the USA are as murderous,vicious, fanatic, barbaric and self righteous as the savage Islamo-Fascist murdering swine who kill all nationalities of hostages by cutting their throats or beheading them WITHOUT EVEN A HEARING OR TRIAL?

Xingu--Were you aware that those soldiers who were accused of murder would be court-martialed?

Are you saying that an army of 130,000 will not have some members who are murderers in a war zone?

Are you saying that the court martial is not an appropriate response by military authorities of ANY COUNTRY when its soldiers committ what might be atrocities?

Are you saying that our Military leaders routinely OVERLOOK charges of gross misbehavior on the part of the US military( If you are, please provide evidence--evidence from propaganda sources is not acceptable-evidence from sources like the Red Cross is indeed acceptable

BUT MOST IMPORTANT- Are you saying that the leaders of the USA are as murderous,vicious, fanatic, barbaric and self righteous as the savage Islamo-Fascist murdering swine who kill all nationalities of hostages by cutting their throats or beheading them WITHOUT EVEN A HEARING OR TRIAL?