Ret. AF Col on Haditha: These incidents will increase monthly

[Rose Siding]

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Reporters who embedded in Haditha several months before the alleged massacre said Marines considered the town as enemy territory, with frequent roadside bombings. During patrols inside the city, Marines treated inhabitants like terrorists, raiding their homes.

An Associated Press journalist who traveled in Haditha last June with a Marine unit not involved in the November killings saw a Marine urinate on the kitchen floor of a home and on another occasion saw insults chalked in English on the gate of an Arab home. The reporter asked a Marine commander about the incident and was told it would be investigated.
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Some analysts, however, say the killings of civilians also reflect frustration among young troops fighting a difficult war with no end in sight. They say these young fighters have been thrust into an alien culture for repeated tours in a war whose strategy many of them do not understand.

"What we're seeing more of now, and these incidents will increase monthly, is the end result of fuzzy, imprecise national direction combined with situational ethics at the highest levels of this government," said retired Air Force Col. Mike Turner, a former planner at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/28/ap/politics/mainD8HSH7DO5.shtml

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Marines treated inhabitants like terrorists, raiding their homes.

Meaning they terrorized them.... this wouldn't have happened if the UNSCOM team was allowed to finish their job.

[bahrbearian]

3. UNSCOM did finish their job..

Chimpy didn't like their report,, he put it on the kitchen floor an urinated on it.

[Rose Siding]

5. It's amazing to see what reporters haven't published

and still they come under attack for being "biased".

[Gman]

2. What's so hard to understand about

Halliburton and oil? Surely marines aren't stupid.

[sarge43]

4. Of course, it'll happen again.

Quick name one war, even the so-called good ones, when atrocities haven't taken place. War is an atrocity. Next week, next month, next war, there will be 'incidents'.

[enid602]

6. Quote

""What we're seeing more of now, and these incidents will increase monthly, is the end result of fuzzy, imprecise national direction combined with situational ethics at the highest levels of this government . . ." Is he talking about Iraq or the US? Could apply to the immigration debate and the Jefferson Search.

[Toots]

7. Let me give an example of the Army's mindset during another conflict

This example was told to almost all new incoming "troops" to Vietnam in 1967.
"We need to round up all the "good gooks" and put them on a big ship in the South China Sea and then bomb every square inch of Vietnam killing everything there. Then we sink the ship" Ha Ha big funny don't ya think

[rocktivity]

8. It's not "frustration", it's repressed rage at their helplessness

which they cannot express because that's against regulations.

They're in the smartest, strongest, most sophisticated Army in the world, and they're both outnumbered and outwitted by a bunch of yellow rice-happy gooks--oops, I mean brown sand-happy ragheads. And the problem isn't that they're fighting a war with no end, but that they're fighting a war they know they can't win.

:headbang:
rocknation