This coming November 19 is the fifth anniversary of the massacre in haditha, western Iraq. Many helpless Iraqi civilians were killed execution-style by the US Marines. This is just one of a string of terrible massacres committed by US troops, says julian zelizer. Zelizer: only one US soldier has been properly charged with causing the deaths.
This coming November 19 is the fifth anniversary of the massacre in haditha, western Iraq. Many helpless Iraqi civilians were killed execution-style by the US Marines. This is just one of a string of terrible massacres committed by US troops, says julian zelizer. Zelizer: only one US soldier has been properly charged with causing the deaths.
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This coming November 19 is the fifth anniversary of the massacre in haditha, western Iraq. Many helpless Iraqi civilians were killed execution-style by the US Marines. This is just one of a string of terrible massacres committed by US troops, says julian zelizer. Zelizer: only one US soldier has been properly charged with causing the deaths.
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This coming November 19 is the fifth anniversary of the Haditha
massacre which was carried out by US Marines in the town of the
same name in the western part of Iraq. Many helpless Iraqi civilians were killed execution-style by the US Marines who afterwards urinated on the corpses. Some of those who were so horribly killed by the US Marines were mere children. This particularly very odiferous massacre is just one of a string of terrible massacres committed by US troops during and after the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq. The massacre came about after the US Marines became completely pissed off by the death of a colleague when his HumVee vehicle was shattered by an explosive device along a road leading to the town. The angry US Marines barged into several houses after hurling frag grenades and opening fire at them and then shot all those inside who were still alive, one by one. The killers went around shooting and doing all kinds of wild acts for nearly three hours. (So very similar to Jap soldiers of WW2.) Immediately after the massacre, the US military put forward the totally false claim that only 15 Iraqi civilians had been killed while nonchalantly attributing their untimely deaths to a roadside bomb explosion. Later, the death toll was revised to 24 after video footage was released showing the victims' bodies with obvious gunshot wounds and zero shrapnel injuries. In all, more than 30 Iraqi civilians died in the massacre, but not all the bodies of the dead people killed in the massacre were carted to the local morgue for counting. At least twelve US Marines were involved in the vicious massacre but only one US soldier has been properly charged with causing the deaths of the Iraqi civilians. That lone US soldier who was charged, Frank Wuterich, was taken to court last month for a hearing to decide if he could face a court-martial for his actions. Frank Wuterich himself personally murdered several of the Iraqi civilians (including five children) in cold blood but he was not charged for murder but only for (possibly committing) voluntary manslaughter. This is really nauseously and also completely unparalleled and very terribly cynical and evil hypocrisy. Shooting children and women in the chest and head after rushing into their homes is not murder ? ? ? On October 27 2010, Wuterich was informed that he would be facing a court-martial in November 2010 for his actions in Haditha while wearing a US military uniform and working and carrying out duties for the US Army. Perhaps now the victims of the Haditha massacre could at last be entitled to qualify for some form of justice. However, it was not to be for the US is still simply so ever full of hypocrisy. True to the great hypocrisy very inherent in them, the US court prosecutors quickly announced that the court-martial was to be postponed indefinitely or at least put forward to an unknown date in the (far-off) future. So much for the course of justice. And what exactly is Frank Wuterich doing at this moment while the US military secretly bangs its head night and day trying to find some ingenious way to wriggle him out of his bloodily shameful predicament or very sordidly ignominious hole ? Frank Wuterich is currently helping the US Army to train recruits who are learning the ropes on the army's assault course. Little wonder so many serial killers in the US have benefited very greatly from years and years of military training or have military combat experience where killing humans is something very mundane like passing one's urine in the bush or around a nearby tree. Many massacres of innocent civilians committed by US soldiers have taken place in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere but virtually all the perpetrators have gone unpunished ( so far). It seems that those innocent civilians have completely no human or civil rights at all. Even tiny little kids and very young babies have totally zero rights. Meanwhile, US leaders are going about here, there, and everywhere preaching and lecturing and reminiscing about great noble ideals like legitimacy, credibility, responsibility and also inspiratory legacies and also in the same breath, talking almost non-stop of change and progress and honour but totally unable to recall even one single episode of the everyday horrors that are still taking place around the world. Horrors perpetrated by the US military. Mexico, Haditha and Afghanistan and many, many other locations or places have apparently become totally forgotten. US leaders are so very unaware that the US military, the US Border Patrol, the US CIA and the US servicemen stationed overseas all have much innocent blood on their hands. Blood belonging to foreigners. One day, Frank Wuterich is likely to get away scot-free despite the crimes he committed in Haditha five years ago and the main reason or explanation is that the US military has always purposefully trained its men to behave like Wuterich did while serving in Iraq. For the US military, killing non-US civilians is like killing flies or insects. For its soldiers like Wuterich, killing them is good. The more that are killed the better. The US today is truly the one ultimate butcher and slaughterer of our world. Its military is full of men like Wuterich and its leaders are full of people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, clinton and Obama. These are the genghises of today's world. Beware ! ! ! Beware of the so mightily very, very bloodthirsty US military.