Friday, May 19, 2006

Murtha: Marines killed Iraqis in cold blood


This is a pix of US snipers at an observation post in Ramadi. The pix is part of a TIME photo essay by Yuri Kozyrev. If you click on the pix you can clearly see what is handwritten near the ceiling. Now I have no idea how incredibly awful it is for them, or what kinds of horrific things they've seen or done, but it can't be a good sign when our troops have that kind of message written at a sniper observation post. It kinda blows that whole "we came to liberate you poor Iraqis from a bloodthirsty dictator" argument right outta the water, no? And it also blows all of Rumsfeld's spew about our troops' situation being just peachy outta the water, too. Add to that this from Murtha: CNN: Rep John Murtha (D-PA), the decorated Marine colonel said that Marines killed at least 30 innocent Iraqi civilians "in cold blood" in Haditha in Nov, suggesting the attack is twice as bad as originally reported. Murtha said that he got his info from US commanders, who said the investigation will show that the Marines deliberately killed the civilians. Murtha said: "There was no firefight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted b/c of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. They actually went into the houses and killed women and children." At first, the Marines said the civilians were killed by a roadside bomb. Later, they suggested the victims may have been caught in a firefight. An Iraqi human rights group, Hammurabi Human Rts Assoc, caught the scene on video, which was obtained by TIME. A criminal investigation then ensued."
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