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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?

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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 03:55 AM

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    the main blame for all the killings is of course on the shoulders of GWB/Ramsfield n co, but as usual punishment starts on the bottom it may creep up a step or two but no further,

    how many innocent people killed by us cops? how many beaten up how many inprisoned most for the sake of crime solved "rating" some am sure also for the cops entertainment n pleasure and almost always get away with their crimes why should anyone expect the us army to be any different? when they come from a culture like that?

    america can pretend what a wonderful job their brave troops are doing in "liberating" iraq BUT reality is very diferent we all seen big powerful bomps dropping on a city full of people destroying whole streets of flats n house yet no ONE cared how many innocent men women n children where getting killed by each bomp or cruise missile

    this incident is one of 1000s am sure, i seen few shocking ones on you Tube just look at gitmo abu whatever that jails name is

    that would even shame the nazis let alone a country that preaches to others about democracy n human rights

    and what will happen when all them veterans are in your streets? scary indeed

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