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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 10:39 AM
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The “My Lai Phase” Of The Iraq War
Killing Women and Children: The “My Lai Phase” Of The Iraq War

By Mike Whitney

03/20/06 "ICH" -- -- What goes through George Bush’s mind when he sees the dead bodies of Iraqi women and children loaded on the back of a pickup truck like garbage?

Is there ever a flicker of remorse; a split-second when he fully grasps the magnitude of the horror he has created?


What parent can look at these photographs and not be consumed with rage?

The US military openly admits it attacked the house in Ishaqi where the incident took place. Reuters reports that, “Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said US forces landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including five children.”

“After they left the house they blew it up”, he said. “The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed,” (policeman) Hussein said. Police had found spent American issue cartridges in the rubble.” (Reuters)

The autopsy report at the Tikrit hospital said, “All the victims had gunshot wounds to the head”.

Iraqi policeman Farouq Hussein noted, “It is a clear and perfect crime without any doubt”.


more at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12404.htm

Iraqi police report @ http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/



WARNING:....pictures at 1st sire very very disturbing.........not for everyone.......you have to click on link..........but this shows just how our troops are killing women and children in the name of the people of the United Staes..........I am so ashamed ...ashamed of this whole damn mess.........
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 10:45 AM
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1. no, but bush's nephew can go into a TV studio and tape an interview...
acting like an utterly snarky, smart-ass frat boy with complete immunity, and that is what is important to the bush family; to be able to do just that x(
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confludemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 11:00 AM
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2. Story on this by Patrick Cockburn in the Independent also
Support our troops? Why? The war is illegal, an atrocity itself and filled with our atrocities. Is the most one can expect from the american public an "uneasiness". Where is the outrage?
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RazzleDazzle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 03:56 PM
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3. Very arresting insight
But I'm not sure it's all that apt. I fear we've been killing women and children in roughly that way since the beginning.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 04:17 PM
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4. "What, My Lai?"



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