Ok folks, let's get our google on - HOW MANY CHILDREN W/GRENADES IN IRAQ?

[sproutster]

I hear it's a big problem in Vietnam, and therefore only bush and company should be punished for shooting young children and women kneeling with their hands over their heads.

The question is, how many babies and children have been suiciders in Iraq?

Or is Vietnam enough for us?

--Do not get me wrong, Bush and Co need the Hague, but so do the cold blooded murders (IMO) and up following the chain of command.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. This post is not very coherently written. What is your point, exactly?

[sproutster]

3. My point is what does the children in Vietnam with grenades have to do

with Haditha.

My head exploded and I thought to myself, maybe someone could explain it to me. Why does that justify this?

Discussion maybe?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Why, were some people on other threads saying that things that happened

in Vietnam justified the apparent execution of women and children who had submitted to the soldiers and were not offering resistance?

[mike_c]

2. bingo-- the circumstances make it clear that these were death squad...

...style executions of noncombatant civilians. None of the victims was resisting, many were women and children, there is no evidence of any threat to the Marines. Haditha was collective punishment and revenge killing, plain and simple. The perps should spend the rest of their lives behind bars, IMO. Instead, they're likely to receive short sentences or no sentences if past experience prosecuting U.S. military atrocities is any guide.

[babylonsister]

5. Not just the perps, but their bosses as well. nt

[PublicWrath]

6. I agree. Some executions took place well after other military came on

the scene, at least a couple of hours after the military burst into the first houses to slaughter numbers of women, children and a poor man in a wheelchair. What they did is simply indefensible.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. The lengths that the freepers will go to justify these murders is

pathetic. Now, the entire population of Iraq is subject to extermination based on the myth that little children and old ladies are shooting our "heros". Bullshit.

[still_one]

7. let me remind you that IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

and neither did the women and children who were murdered