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"theloneranger100aol" |
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29 May 2006 11:32:26 PM |
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US MISSION: EXTERMINATE ALL IRAQI CHILDREN |
http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-marines28.html
War in Iraq
U.S. braces for 'Iraq's My Lai'
May 28, 2006
BY ROBERT H. REID
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military is getting ready for a major scandal
over the alleged slaying of Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha --
charges so serious they could threaten President Bush's effort to rally
support at home for an increasingly unpopular war.
Although the case has attracted little attention so far in Iraq, it
still could inflame hostility to the U.S. presence just as Iraq's new
government is getting established, and complicate efforts to quell the
insurgency.
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the
criminal investigation should be completed by next month. A report on
the probe will be available then, Pace said Saturday in a visit to
Chicago.
A Pentagon official said investigators think Marines committed
unprovoked murder in the deaths of about two dozen in November.
Regardless of the outcome, top U.S. Marine Gen. Michael Hagee has been
sent to Iraq and will be visiting several parts of the United States
"to remind all the [Marine] leaders and to instill in our Marines the
fundamental understanding of what Marines do and not do in combat,"
Pace said.
Haditha is not the only case pending: Wednesday, the military announced
an investigation into allegations that Marines killed a civilian April
26 near Fallujah. The statement said "service members" had been sent
back to the United States "pending results of the criminal
investigation."
Last July, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations accused the Marines
of killing his 21-year-old cousin during a search of his family's home
in Haditha. Results from a criminal investigation have not been
announced.
Together, the cases present the most serious challenge to U.S. handling
of the Iraq war since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
"What happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder," said Marc
Garlasco of Human Rights Watch. "The Haditha massacre will go down as
Iraq's My Lai," a reference to the Vietnam War incident in which
American soldiers slaughtered up to 500 civilians in 1968.
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| User: "Attila2" |
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| Title: Re: US MISSION: EXTERMINATE ALL IRAQI CHILDREN |
30 May 2006 06:21:23 AM |
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On 29 May 2006 21:32:26 -0700, "theloneranger100aol"
<sean.monaghan2@gmail.com> in alt.abortion with message-id
<1148963546.068547.251720@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
Off topic spam.
What does this have to do with abortion or the Freedom of Choice?
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| User: "james g. keegan jr." |
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| Title: Re: US MISSION: EXTERMINATE ALL IRAQI CHILDREN |
30 May 2006 07:11:06 AM |
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In article <3lao72hlj4krbmivvhf3pfmabrmf75bsgt@4ax.com>,
Attila2 <prochoice@here.now> wrote:
On 29 May 2006 21:32:26 -0700, "theloneranger100aol"
<sean.monaghan2@gmail.com> in alt.abortion with message-id
<1148963546.068547.251720@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
Off topic spam.
What does this have to do with abortion or the Freedom of Choice?
you continue to demonstrate your ignorance of usenet newsgroups,
scumball, and your disrespect for readers' ability to decide for
themselves what is and is not appropriate.
do you feel like a hypocrite criticizing others for doing what you
do? even osprey has legitimately commented on your hypocrisy.
your hypocrisy aside, what you might want to do to make yourself feel
like an even bigger ***** is take a random sample of posts you've
whined about and then search google for the number of posts with this
topic, demonstrating that readers know what is of interest to them
far better than you do.
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