US TROOPS COMMIT ATROCITIES IN IRAQ

From A Tiny Revolution courtesy of Eschaton, reporter Seymour Hersh relates a tale told to him by an American soldier in Iraq:

They were a couple weeks together, they knew each other. So orders came down from the generals in Baghdad, we want to clear the village, like in Samarra. And as he told the story, another platoon from his company came and executed all the guards, as his people were screaming, stop. And he said they just shot them one by one. He went nuts, and his soldiers went nuts. And he's hysterical. He's totally hysterical. And he went to the captain. He was a lieutenant, he went to the company captain. And the company captain said, "No, you don't understand. That's a kill. We got thirty-six insurgents."

You read those stories where the Americans, we take a city, we had a combat, a hundred and fifteen insurgents are killed. You read those stories. It's shades of Vietnam again, folks, body counts...

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Abu Ghraib was just a snapshot. This is fucking awful, and it's just going to get worse as the war continues. We've learned nothing.

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