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A daily occurrence...
Jun. 4th, 2006 03:27 pmThe systemic flaw in occupation logic....
One could get the impression that Iraqi civilians dying at the hands of the occupation is a daily occurrence. I wonder what they are expecting the Iraqi response to this offered violence will be?
"In other words, he who fights against the weak - and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed - and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel; to let that opponent kill you is unnecessary and therefore foolish. As Vietnam and countless other cases prove, no armed force, however rich, however powerful, however advanced, however well motivated is immune to this dilemma. The end result is always disintegration and defeat...That is why the present adventure will almost certainly end as the previous one (Vietnam) did. Namely, with the last U.S. troops fleeing the country while hanging on to their helicopters' skids." - here
2006: A CATALOGUE OF ALLEGED US ATROCITIES
FACTBOX-U.S. troops and civilian complaints in Iraq
New Evidence Undermines U.S. Iraq Claims"Al Hamdania, site of another alleged American atrocity in April,residents told ABC News today that a Marine sergeant lied on an official report about the death of a civilian, saying the man appeared to be planting a bomb. But several Marines have confessed to dragging the man from his house, shooting him and putting a shovel and weapon next to his body.Iraqi civilians killed in accident -- US military
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A new witness has come forward. Iman Waleed Abdul Hameed, a 9-year-old girl, said Marines killed her father, mother, brother, two uncles and grandmother.
Local doctors said the dead included eight women and five children. "Most of the dead," said Dr. Waleed Abdul Khaliq al Obaidi, in Arabic, "were shot in the head and chest."A U.S. artillery round landed in an inhabited area of Iraq on Friday and police said afterwards that two civilians were killed and four were wounded in a blast, the U.S. military said on Sunday. One of the wounded died later in hospital, it said in a statement headlined:"Accident [sic] in Diyala (province) kills three, injures three." A U.S. artillery unit fired the 155 mm round during training, the statement said, adding that an investigation was under way.
One could get the impression that Iraqi civilians dying at the hands of the occupation is a daily occurrence. I wonder what they are expecting the Iraqi response to this offered violence will be?
"In other words, he who fights against the weak - and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed - and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel; to let that opponent kill you is unnecessary and therefore foolish. As Vietnam and countless other cases prove, no armed force, however rich, however powerful, however advanced, however well motivated is immune to this dilemma. The end result is always disintegration and defeat...That is why the present adventure will almost certainly end as the previous one (Vietnam) did. Namely, with the last U.S. troops fleeing the country while hanging on to their helicopters' skids." - here
