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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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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 03:05 PM

    WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US!!!!!

    I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER LIVE TO AGAIN SEE

    THE BANEFUL DESCRIPTIVE TAG OF "ATROCITY"

    BUT CONSIDERING WHO IS THE commander-in-THIEF

    I KNOW MY RESPITE WAS REALLY BRIEF

    FROM THE EXCESSES OF VIETNAM FAR ACROSS THE SEA!!!!!

    LIKE VIETNAM, Iraq IS A MISTAKEN AND CRIMINAL WAR

    SPURRED ON BY WARMONGING IDIOTS AND CRIMINALS, BY GAR!

    MIXED IN A CAULDRON OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND FEAR

    THEN QUAFFED BY TMIC* LIKE A SMALL GLASS OF BEER!!!!!

    THE INNOCENT BYSTANDERS WISH FOR SALVATION UPON A STAR!!!!!

    *The Military Industrial Complex

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