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Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver

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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 06:36 PM

    Its nothing more than "Sanctimony and Crocodile Tears!"

    Seeing that the majority of the American public did nothing constructive let alone concerted to stop the atrocity of the Bush "OIL" War in Iraq,why even philosophize now on the number of innocent Iraqis who were murdered (with complete immunity) by US Military snipers? After all thousands of innocent Iraqis at a time were wiped out in neighbourhoods like in Fallujah (as just one example) by incessant US Military bombing and Americans for the most part just ignored it or even cheered it on!

    The only recompense or contrition to be offered up now to Iraqis for their pain and sorrow and the unwarranted destruction of their country is really nothing more than "Sanctimony and Crocodile Tears" because these same Americans displayed no conscience and did nothing and took no strong steps or actions to stop these atrocities in Iraq,that were freely instigated and inflicted by their own government and the US Military.

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