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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:23 PM
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What Crusade
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 06:29 PM by LibertyorDeath
They are very busy killing Iraqi's & committing Real War Crimes
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/iraq-n09.sht...

This is a War Crime
"Colonel Michael Shupp ordered his troops to shoot Iraqis attempting to surrender"


Marine commander Major General John Sattler dehumanised Fallujah’s defenders as “mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators”. Colonel Michael Shupp ordered his troops to shoot Iraqis attempting to surrender, “because of the threat of suicide bombers”. Army Colonel Pete Newell declared: “We’re going to start at one end of the city and we’re not going to stop until we get to the other. If there’s anybody left when that happens, we’re going to turn around and we’re going to go back and finish it.”

Marine Colonel Gary Bradl made the most chilling call for mass murder, couching it as Christian fundamentalist duty. He lectured his troops: “The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He’s in Fallujah and we’re going to destroy him.”

The battle now underway is being directly compared by marine officers with the 1968 battle for Hue city in Vietnam. The comparison may prove to be accurate. In the course of 26 days of combat, over 600 US and allied troops were killed and 3,164 wounded, killing an estimated 5,000 Vietnamese fighters in the city. More than 10,000 houses were destroyed and 40 percent of the city reduced to rubble.




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wildflower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:36 PM
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1. This is unbelievable.... n/t
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