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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (10142)8/7/2006 5:08:50 PM
From: Sawdusty  Read Replies (1) of 37132
 
Do you support this.

"American military commanders first stated there was no evidence of civilian casualties in Falluja. Now, the Pentagon has accepted responsibility and offered compensation for the death of a family of seven, including a three-month-old baby. Yet it still only admits to having killed a few.

Press accounts, however, described Fallujas streets as littered with corpses. One high-level International Committee of the Red Cross official in Iraq estimated in mid-November that there were "at least 800 civilians" among the dead. More recently, the Iraqi Red Crescent estimated that more than 6,000 people may have died in the battle. "

commondreams.org

Or perhaps this is more to your liking.

"American troops played cards and drank whiskey at a checkpoint as they hatched a plan to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and kill her family, one of the accused told investigators, according to testimony at a military hearing today."

Of course I expect you will say that this practice is not a common element of war and The US will always get to the bottom of it and punish the bad people. Maybe 30 or 40 years from now.

"Decades-old Pentagon records show that Army criminal investigators substantiated seven massacres of Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians by U.S. soldiers — in addition to the notorious 1968 My Lai massacre."

latimes.com

Now I'm not sure if this is balanced enough for this board, it's the LA Times.
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