Letters to the Editor
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Not just "murderers" - they are "WAR CRIMINALS"!
"imho" is largely correct on the issue in his letter "Let us not mince words", except in his characterization of the Bush Gang as mere "murderers".
THEY ARE WAR CRIMINALS!
And people (whether US citizens or not) who do not raise their voices against these war criminals should surely be judged to be complicit in the war crimes.
-- GSC
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Apologies!
WHOOPS, SORRY! I gather, on reading other letters from "imho", that the person in question is a "she", not a "he" as mis-stated in my message a short time ago. My sincere apologies to you, imho...
-- GSC
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The facts, please
What do the authors think that soldiers do? Where do they think all that ammunition goes? Do they imagine that a vast population of dead just up and died?
The journalistic tactic of personalized micro-narrative is ineradicable, but how naive can you be -- and remain? It is deeply misleading, a form of disguise, to focus on the occasional documented good-boys-gone-wrong tale, while the real story swirls obviously about us everywhere.
Virtually every unit on the eastern front committed atrocities, as a kind of filigree on the basic thrust of policy. It took 50 years for the perpetrating nation to grasp this. Will we ever have such a reckoning?
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RE
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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It would seem...
...that we have found the terrorists in Iraq, and they are us...
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Who is responsible?
Um, what about every person who voted for the politicians that you blame? What about the average people who democratically elected the President in 2004? What about every dollar from every taxpayer that went into the war? And this is not limited to Americans. Do you think you are innocent just because you don't like it now?
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Now that's what I'm talkin about!
This is the Salon I remember. Thank you for telling this story.
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Drop the Thesaurus and put your hands up!!!
Yeah.. you lost me with the pomposity by page two. Really, "hors de combat"?!?... tautology?!?... nebulous?!? who actually uses these? I know chicks dig guys who use big words, but try "out of combat", logic, and vague... they will work quite nicely. Here a pair for the authors "sesquipedalian" and "ostentatious."
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War crimes
1. We were wrong to invade
2. We are wrong to remain
3. Pelosi and Reid refuse to defund the occupation
4. Pelosi and Reid refuse to impeach
5. Pregnant women count as two kills
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Morally Bankrupt!
A better question to ask? What hasn't been morally bankrupted by this corrupt Administration and it's stinking war of choice? Almost everything the man has touched has become corrupted by his extreme malevolence. At one time Christianity stood as a moral bulwark against the evils of the world. But it too has fallen prey to the evils that plagues this administration. I guess it's like the old saying goes 'a rotten apple eventually rots the whole barrel!'
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Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld ...
...are the ones who should pay the price for this kind of situation. These men who actually did it should also pay some price but they are in an impossible situation, especially given the 100 pound packs, no sleep, very little rest and the sweltering heat that most Americans are not used to. Dehydration makes for rotten judgment.
But Ford pardoned Nixon, and that began the chain of irresponsibility that now permeates the Republican Party who just seems to always think they are above the law and can do anything they so choose because they consider themselves to be the law, ala the Unitary Executive monarchical mindset. Bush thinks he is above the law but the cold and calculating Bush family mindset supports that kind of thinking.
Nixon was the first high level Republican/ politician that ' if the prez does it it's okay isn't it (my paraphrasing) and Ford by pardoning him assented to that idea. Then along came St. Reagan (the anointed high priest of the Repub party), Daddy Bush and Oliver North who carried on in the tradition of the cold, dead and disturbed Repub party and kept pushing that envelope. Instead of being the Moral Majority as they claimed/claim they really became the immoral majority. That mindset leads to holocaustian behavior.
The poor slob at the bottom, the foot soldier, really just reflects the mindset of the top brass, right up to the WH. The troops at the bottom pay the price but the guys at the top MADE IT HAPPEN.
So we all should ask ourselves the question, have we learned nothing from the Holocaust. Ar e we just allowing the same type of people to once more push their debased values to set the agenda of our lives and the lives of so many others including the troops on the ground who will have to live, for the rest of their lives, with the first hand knowledge of what they did.
And amazingly enough my religion just keeps on supporting these people, these kinds of Rethug party thinkers. But then it also gave it's Imprimatur to Hitler, the Nazis and the Fascists. It all strikes me as just more of the same. Don't we all owe something to the six million dead and the sixty million dead from WWII to never again allow this kind of insanity, this abomination unto the 'family of man'.