[PAA-Discuss] The realities of war

[Juli3 at aol.com]

Here is a story about the apparent revenge killing  of Iraqi families
including a baby girl by US marines:

_http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838343/_ 
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838343/) 

WASHINGTON  - A Pentagon probe into the death of Iraqi civilians last
November in the  Iraqi city of Haditha will show that U.S. Marines
"killed innocent civilians  in cold blood," a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday.

The video, obtained by  Time magazine, was broadcast a day after town
residents told The Associated  Press that American troops entered homes
on Nov. 19 and shot dead 15 members  of two families, including a
3-year-old girl, after a roadside bomb killed a  U.S. Marine."

And here is video of what are probably private "security"  contractors
indiscriminately machine-gunning Iraqi civilians as they drive  along:

_http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805A.shtml_ 
(http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805A.shtml) 

Not  good ways to win hearts and minds I'd say. The troops are in hell,
and so are  the Iraqi people. 

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