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[RBHam]

Operation Barbarossa and Operation Phantom Fury: Different Only by a Matter of Degree

Reading about the destruction of Fallujah, now that details are trickling in (mostly in the European press), I am reminded of Hermann Goering who said, during Operation Barbarossa (Germany’s doomed invasion of Russia), that the Germans had no problem killing civilians and POWs because Germany had not signed the Geneva Convention. In Fallujah, the United States is also killing civilians and POWs (as video attests), but Bush and the Pentagon are not offering excuses like Goering did. Instead, the Geneva Convention is totally irrelevant, not even worth mention (we have come a long way since the Nazis).

“Nazi propaganda had convinced the men in the army to view the Russians as a ‘conglomeration of animals,’” writes Paul Fleming, Jr.

The Germans under their Nazi leaders were “insanely bent upon the enslavement or butchery of all Untermenschen.” This policy was implemented in …"criminal orders” which provided the German army with a “blank cheque for the mass killing of civilians.” And this they did. A resident of Leningrad at the time noted that the Germans “killed without regarding age or sex.” … In an effort to hamper partisan activity, houses in which the Germans thought partisans were hiding were burned with the occupants inside. … With the Germans treating the civilian population like this it is no small wonder they quickly lost the support of the people who once looked to them as “liberators.”

Fast forward more than sixty years.

On November 24, Kim Sengupta reported for the UK Independent: “Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city.”

They said, in interviews with The Independent, that as well as deaths from bombs and artillery shells, a large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid for injured civilians, they said.

The refugees from Fallujah describe a situation of extreme violence in which remaining civilians in the city, who have been told by the Americans to leave, appeared to have been seen as complicit in the insurgency. Men of military age were particularly vulnerable. But there are accounts of children as young as four, and women and old men being killed.

“One of things we noticed the most were the numbers of people killed by American snipers. They were not just men but women and some children as well. The youngest one I saw was a four-year-old boy. Almost all these people had been shot in the head, chest or neck.”

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