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Haditha killings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Haditha killings were an alleged mass-murder of Iraqi civilians by United States Marines in the town of Haditha, Iraq on November 19, 2005. A squad of Marines is alleged to have killed 24 Iraqi civilians after an improvised explosive device detonated by insurgents killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. ..." |
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Do Hadithans Hate Us for Our Freedoms?, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 2 Jun 2006
Related Topic: September 11, 2001
"... defenders of the president's war ... are suggesting that the killing of 24 defenseless civilians in Haditha ... were committed by only a few U.S. soldiers ... Who honestly believes that the friends and family members ... of those who were killed and maimed in Haditha ... are likely to say, 'We hate America ... because of America's First Amendment and rock and roll'?" |
Iraqi Death by Political Abstraction, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Personal Responsibility, Leonard E. Read
"So who is ultimately responsible for the massacre of the 24 unarmed Iraqis at Haditha? ... Many things about war are uncertain, but one thing we know for sure: men of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, would not be under investigation for cold-blooded murder had they never left Camp Pendleton in southern California." |
Massacre of Civilians Was Inevitablec, by Eric Margolis, 19 Jun 2006
"The real blame for Haditha, of course, belongs to an administration that plunged the U.S. into an unnecessary, no-win war in Iraq, and with Pentagon brass. And with those senior Washington officials who spit on the Geneva Conventions and laws of war and telegraphed their contempt right down the line." |
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Rationalizing Haditha: The War Party's 'moderates' minimize it – and the crazier neocons deny it, by Justin Raimondo, 7 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Iraq, Iraq War (2003)
"The Haditha massacre is not the result of individual failings, or of a 'renegade' squadron that somehow shucked its training and went berserk. It is the inevitable consequence of a policy that cannot be implemented without inflicting massive casualties on the enemy ... in a country where the overwhelming majority want the occupation to end." |
The Meaning of Haditha: Murderous depravity and empire-building go hand-in-hand, by Justin Raimondo, 2 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Imperialism, Iraq War (2003)
"We are not talking about National Guard units, here: these are U.S. Marines, highly-trained killing machines who know the rules of war, know the difference between a woman with a baby in her arms and a group of insurgents, and know, furthermore, that the war they are fighting is supposed to be against terrorism." |
Is This Really War?, by Sheldon Richman, 16 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Iraq War (2003), George W. Bush
"When innocent civilians are killed, as they were in November in Haditha, people will often say that such is war. But is this war? ... much of its work is similar to that of a police force. And here is where problems begin. The American military is not trained for police work. Troops are trained to kill, not ask questions or carry out investigations." |
Our Terrorism, and Theirs: Liberal apologetics for American atrocities, by Justin Raimondo, 5 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Iraq War (2003)
"If it weren't for Iraqi human rights activist Taher Thabet, who videotaped the immediate aftermath of the Haditha atrocities, the cover-up engineered by local commanders (and possibly others higher up the chain of command) would have succeeded. When Marine units arrived at Haditha in the wake of the massacre, they found women, children, and an old man, shot dead ..." |
The Abominations of War: From My Lai to Haditha, by Cindy Sheehan, 5 Jun 2006
Related Topics: War, George W. Bush, Iraq War (2003)
"The massacre in Haditha on November, 19, 2005, is just another way to underscore the fact that our troops are being turned into war criminals ... The most difficult part of this writing is in trying to reconcile the fact that our soldiers, for one example, in Haditha, could not show conscience and restraint, qualities which may have prevented a murderous rampage." |
The President Seems Out of Touch With Events on the Ground in Iraq, by Robert Higgs, 31 May 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Iraq War (2003)
"... newspapers around the world were reporting on an investigation of the massacre of at least two dozen Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha ... The merest child knows how the investigation and the prosecution of those charged with these killings will proceed, sparing all senior officers and punishing only the grunts who pulled the triggers ..." |
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| Are Haditha Killings a Modern Day My Lai?, by Jeff Danziger, 2 Jun 2006 |
| Nothing Changes, by Paul Conrad, 7 Jun 2006 |
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