Dahr Jamail on Fallujah stories...

[phusion]

Sorry if this is a repost. I looked but couldn't find anything...This is from Dahr's Monday blog post.

This story makes me sick to my stomach. What are we allowing to happen? This sounds like shit the Nazis did... :(


“I started speaking about what happened in Fallujah during both sieges in order to raise awareness, and the Americans raided my house three times,” he says, talking so fast I can barely keep up. He is driven to tell what he’s witnessed, and as a doctor working inside Fallujah, he has video and photographic proof of all that he tells me.

“One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old,” he says of one of the testimonies he video taped recently, “She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything.”

The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and witnessed the war crimes first-hand.

“They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head,” he said. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead."

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[JohnyCanuck]

1. As the General said...

war can be a real blast.

It's fun to shoot some people

It is the attitude of Mattis and his breed - and there are lots like him, think of the deranged General Boykin, for example - that has drawn US forces into the disaster that Iraq has become. Their swaggering, triumphal, smack-'em-in-the-mouth approach has caused millions of Iraqis to hate American troops because from day one the Mattis-type people acted as if every Iraqi was an enemy. They weren't then, but most of them are, now, thanks to those in the military who followed the example of the all-American Marine who just loves killing people. He is a knuckle dragging buffoon, but the dangerous thing for the world is that he is a hero to millions.