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May 24, 2004
you're in the wrong country when...
You know you're in the wrong country when you consider all "military age male"s to be a threat.
Think about it. It means that you are not in your own country and that the population of the country is against you.
Here's what commander of the 1st Marine division said about the wedding party that was attacked by American planes, killing up to 45 people.
"These were more than two dozen military-age males," scoffed Maj-Gen James Mattis, commander of the US 1st Marine Division. "Let's not be naive."
Let's take that statement at its bone chilling face value. If you think the most likely reason for any two dozen males to get together is to attack, or plan attacking, your forces what more evidence do you need to know you are an unwelcome occupation force?
It's almost like a litmus test for a wrong war. The United States Armed Forces defending the United States against aggression within its own soil would not shoot and kill any gathering of "military age males." If a peacekeeping force was deployed in some country, it would not have to attack all males if it was actually there for "peacekeeping" -- in such a scenario, at least some of the population would welcome its presence (otherwise, again, you shouldn't be there if nobody wants you there.)
Here's a little excerpt from Colin Powell's bio, talking about the Vietnam War:
If a helo [helicopter]spotted a peasant in black pajamas who looked remotely suspicious, a possible MAM [military age male] the pilot would circle and fire in front of him. If he moved, his movement was judged evidence of hostile intent, and the next burst was not in front, but at him. Brutal? Maybe so. (An American Journey, p.140).
In the wrong country? Definitely so.
It's also shameful how anyone can still dispute it was a wedding party. After a wedding video, with some of the participants in the video confirmed as having been killed in the attack, countless eyewitness accounts from people, some of whom confirmed to be the people in the video, pictures of dead babies and women taken by a variety of news organizations at the scene shortly after the attack, plus lack of any evidence to the contrary that it was anything but a wedding party should be enough. We'd never call something "alleged" after that much evidence if it involved Americans and Europeans as victims.
Yet the denials continue:
What about the video footage? Maj-Gen Mattis said he had not seen it, but added: "Bad things happen in wars. I don't have to apologize for the conduct of my men." Although an investigation has been promised, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, said in Washington: "We feel at this point very confident that this was a legitimate target, probably foreign fighters."
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yes, the denials continue ... and they continue to be bad
Myers: "We feel at this point very confident that it was a legitimate target. Probably foreign fighters".
So typical of occupiers ... confident in their actions and the lies they've invented to justify them ... so ignorant about the occupied - land & people.
Reminds me a bit of Bartholomew de las Casas' diary of Columbus's 'interaction' with the Tainos ... ol' Christopher, having grown up on the legends of three-headed, eyes-in-the-navel monsters put forward as anthropological classifications by such old-world luminaries as Pliny the Elder, was flabbergasted by the 'normal' appearance of the Tainos ... but this confusion didn't interfere one bit with the quasi-missionary-quasi-bandit (he was an early neo-con, i guess) conviction with which he massacred them.
Posted by: aswad at May 25, 2004 02:54 PM
US seems determined to kill every military age male, regardless of the level of threat. Isnt this more of the pre-emptive psychosis? And doesnt it remind you of King Herod, who sought to kill every infant in Judea?
The act was a clear war crime, a pity the US has acquired immunity. Now all the psychos in the US military will have freedom to kill at will.
Posted by: brian at May 27, 2004 01:45 AM