Perhaps, I've misunderstood the tenor of many of the postings on this thread (the format distortion over the last pages isn't a help). It sure seems to me that a number of our colleagues have suggested that U.S. military personnel are out of control, torturing and murdering unarmed innocent civilians on a regular basis. The very title of the thread is provocative, and it certainly seems to me that a number of folks here have condemned our military in general. Its disappointing that these armchair critics only are heard from when a few of our troops are involved in some questionable incident. They seem to accept the truthfulness of the enemy over our own leadership.
Who is more believable: Al-Mousaui (or, however the dirtbag spells his name), or the U.S. Chiefs of Staff ... if you don't want to believe the President of the United States?
Talk about morons, how about those Iraqi's who blow up their own people and destroy the public works that the U.S. has built for them at great cost? Surely we can believe the words of a man who specifically targets innocent civilians as a matter of policy ... after all he is an Iraqi (?) patriot. I think Al-Mousaui was originally from Yemen before joining Al Quida. He just loves Iraq, and was vacationing there when those terrible Americans unleashed their indiscriminate bombing that murdered millions in their beds. He's a soft hearted man whose sense of justice just can not be stilled.
On the other hand, that bastard Bush conspired with other wealthy Christian zealots to undermine the U.S. Constitution. He literally stole the Presidency though all right thinking people in the country opposed him. The shrub , though not smart enough to get into a Texas Jr. College, showed his cowardice by going AWOL to avoid combat. A hopeless alcoholic and failure at everything but conspiracy, Bush bought the Republican Party with promises that he would enslave the poor. It was Bush and his little circle of madmen who conceived of 9/11, and worked hand-in-glove with Mossad to bring down the Trade Towers. That gave him the excuse he needed to scrap the Bill of Rights, and suppress all dissent within the country. He rounded up tens of thousands, perhaps millions of innocent American citizens an put them into secret concentration camps, where gays and liberal Democrats go up in smoke each day. He is a brilliant idiot, but half the cosmopolitan pseudo-intellectuals are way smarter than he is. You might ask my sources for all that. Just pick almost any political thread here, get a dagwood sandwich and a cold case of beer and have a ball.
Ah, success!!!! I got us all off that terrible last page
Newsweek
Probing a Bloodbath
The Marines were well prepared for war, but not for insurgency. Did some of them snap--and slaughter innocent civilians in cold blood?
June 12, 2006 issue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13124487/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/
Quote:. . . It is not clear exactly what happened in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19. One Marine and 24 Iraqis died, that much is certain. Local survivors say Americans on a rampage massacred their neighbors in cold blood. The videotaped eyewitness accounts provided to NEWSWEEK and other news organizations are horrifying, hard to believe in their sordidness and brutality. The Marines at first said 15 civilians, along with Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, had been killed by an IED, and that the rest died in a shoot-out with insurgents. But the official story changed, in part because of a Time magazine exposé in March. Now, according to congressmen who have been briefed by the Pentagon, the military is investigating Kilo Company for possible war crimes. Investigators have seen grisly photographs and are pursuing allegations of a cover-up. Ominously, there are also reports of atrocities in other places, committed by young soldiers who cracked under the pressure of a war fought on a battlefield with no front lines, no easy way to tell civilians from insurgents, and no end in sight.
In Vietnam, when the doleful news came home of burned villages and slaughtered civilians, many Americans blamed the military. Vets came home to be spat upon and called "baby killers." Americans have learned from their disgraceful behavior back then, and generally honor today's Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen. But increasingly, they blame their leaders for putting young men and women into situations they were not trained or equipped to handle. As more accounts of civilian killings come to light, the pressure is likely to grow on the Bush administration to bring home the troops, not just to save their lives, but to rescue their honor and decency. . . .
This article is 5 pages long. Click on link to read the entire article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13124487/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/
What happened in Vietnam was much worse than this incident. The Tiger Force story was buried for a long time; it is revisited again.
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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SRTIGERFORCE
