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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 10:16 AM
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The Nightmare: The Iraq Invasion's Atrocities, Unearthing the Unthinkable

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Over the last several weeks I have again researched in depth, invasion's atrocities in Iraq, unearthing the unthinkable, switching off emotion and reading of terror, torture, monstrous wickednesses, word after sickening word. Then, Fallujah revisited (1) with document after document revealing the depth of the darkest depravities towards others, which can be plumbed, by "some mother's son" - or daughter. Indeed, some child's father or mother, able to shoot the children, toddlers, babies of others, in cold blood, drive over them in tanks, leaving the pathetic remains to be eaten by stray dogs.

Photographs viewed have included many which even hardened investigators have deemed: "too disturbing to view." This is not a view I hold. If family members who have survived, emergency workers (when not incinerated by U.S., troops themselves) medical staff, if not shot, imprisoned, tortured, or tied up with a bag over their head) can view, identify, bury with love and respect - or in the case of medical staff, carefully photograph, and note time, location of finding, then number, wrap and retain for a period, before burial, hoping a relative will claim the charred, mutilated, or worse, remains. It is a duty for those with any "voice", from countries responsible for this first documentable U.S., U.K., genocide of the 21st century, to draw attention to it, in the memory of and in tribute to, the voiceless, nameless, uncounted victims, in the hope that eventually, legal recourse might result.

In fact it was compassion which over came all - bodies and faces burned near beyond recognition, or the eviscerated, the all with the eyes, often, still staring out in a desperate silent plea for help, combined with utter bewilderment. "We have the scumbags on the run", wrote a marine on his website. "We lit them up", wrote another, as many took photographs of these lost souls - and sent them to porn sites in exchange for free viewing. And between the U.S., occupiers (now, surreally, re-branded "advisors" - same car, new paint) and what Hussein al-Alak of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign has called: " the U.S., imposed Vichy government, with their foreign passports ..", who will fight for justice for the Iraqis?

And, as since 1991, this is also a war against the unborn, new born and under fives. After the bodies and the rubble, the gore, blood and limbs, there are the deformities. The fledgling life, born without eyes, brain, with one cyclops eye, with no head, with two heads, with no limbs, or fingers - or too many. A biblical land turned to genetic and ecological Armageddon, for current and future generations, till the end of time. "Mission accomplished", said George W. Bush, in his ridiculous little flying suit, on the USS Abraham Lincoln on 1st May 2003. "Let freedom reign", he scribbled, after the first, corrupt, murderous, corpse-littered "elections". Result: "Let genocide commence."

-long snip leaving with this: we americans outdid Hitler-
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we are so guilty
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 10:28 AM
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1. We are so guilty.
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 10:36 AM
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2. While there were clearly too many deaths/injuries as collateral damage in battles over cities ....
Edited on Tue Oct-12-10 10:36 AM by aikoaiko
...is that the same as genocide?

Maybe what we call what happened doesn't really matter.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 10:48 AM
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4. "Collateral damage" is not an excuse for anything. The war was always a criminal operation.
You don't get an excuse for killing people in the course of robbing a bank. No one says it wasn't murder just because you were only in it for the money. The war was always illegal, a war of aggression and conquest launched on the basis of lies.

Furthermore, there is nothing "collateral" about the fully predictable, guaranteed casualties of war. And recall that the war began with an announcement of "Shock and Awe." The point was to kill and terrorize. When the initial strategy was predictably met with an insurgency from the invaded population, the perpetrators of the invasion switched to fomenting civil war. The American invaders let the Shia militias run the interior ministry, they armed them and countenanced the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad that followed. None of this is "collateral." It is aggressive war and war crimes, and the perpetrators remain free and rich, in fact richer as a direct result of their crime. They benefited. Crime pays, and this is why they will look to do more and worse soon as they can.
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 10:45 AM
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3. k&r! nt
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 11:06 AM
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5. We are monsters. The photos from Fallujah are proof. KnR n/t
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 11:14 AM
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6. Okay ... seriously folks...
Is there anyone who doesn't think we are doing exactly the same shit in Afghanistan?

It's war. It's always like this.

Which is why it is a good thing to stay out of.
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-12-10 11:25 AM
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7. K&R
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