Liberators as Murderers (Robert Fisk)

[laststeamtrain]

I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city's senior medical officials, an old friend, told me of his fears. "Everyone brings bodies here," he said. "But when the Americans bring bodies in, we are instructed that under no circumstances are we ever to do post-mortems. We were given to understand that this had already been done. Sometimes we'd get a piece of paper like this one with a body." And here the man handed me a U.S. military document showing with the hand-drawn outline of a man's body and the words "trauma wounds."

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For who can be held to account when we regard ourselves as the brightest, the most honorable of creatures, doing endless battle with the killers of Sept. 11 or July 7 because we love our country and our people -- but not other people -- so much. And so we dress ourselves up as Galahads, yes as Crusaders, and we tell those whose countries we invade that we are going to bring them democracy. I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections -- before their "liberators" murdered them.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk06032006.html


I heard Tony Blankley go beserk at Eleanor Clift on MCLAUGHLIN last night saying it was "glee" being felt by war critics at the news of atrocities.
Glee is the furthest thing from my mind.
I guess if the shoe were on the other foot somehow, people like Blankley would be gleeful. They call that projection.
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[acmavm]

1. Fat Tony is the type of scum who would gleefully committ atrocities

if in that position. That's why he was so pissed. He saw himself.

[bemildred]

2. I do feel "glee" at the idea of those responsible for this war

being held accountable for the evils they have instigated. For this twisted swine to imply that it is the atrocities that I favor is just defensive twaddle, it his downfall that fills me with "glee", and it is the end of these sorts of atrocities that I favor, or at least the end of such barbaric acts by the US military.