the world now knows most of the facts about the Haditha murders and they know that the US tried to cover it up ... there are new reports from Samarra that another incident has occurred ...
in perhaps the height of irony according to the article below, U.S. officers have complained of "disinformation" from police as part of an insurgent campaign to discredit them. bush has been planting propaganda all over the Iraqi media since the invasion began ... this is NOT a propaganda war, if that's what it is, that the US can win ... the US has no credibility investigating its own actions ...
the US invasion and occupation in Iraq will make us even more hated throughout the world than we were before the invasion began ... and there will be no recovering from the violence perpetrated by Americans troops against innocent Iraqis ... while we, in this country may be willing to look at the stress our troops are under and provide at least some understanding for their actions, such will not be the case throughout the Muslim world ...
reports like these, whether true or not, will soon become a regular, maybe daily, part of the news coming out of Iraq ... as these reports become more frequent, the Iraqi people are likely to demand the US leave their country immediately ... peace cannot come to Iraq while the US remains in occupation ...
source:
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=MAC149206Amid mounting public interest in the United States in an inquiry into a suspected massacre at Haditha, the allegations about the deaths of three people at Samarra are among many that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said this week were trying his patience with the U.S. military's "excuses" over "mistakes".
Iraqi army and police officers and several people who said they were witnesses and relatives of the dead said U.S. soldiers killed two women, aged 60 and 20, and a mentally handicapped man in their home on May 4 after insurgents fired on the troops. <skip>
"They were not armed and there were no gunmen in the house," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by insurgents who routinely kill policemen. <skip>
"I was sitting next to my house when clashes erupted between gunmen and U.S. forces," said Habib, sitting in his home three weeks later. "I went indoors with my family to a safe room."
U.S. soldiers then broke down the door, he said: "Four soldiers stood at the door of the room where we were hiding. There were 15 of us. They started firing. I was shot in the arm and then one of the soldiers dragged me out.
"The firing went on against my family. I was lying face down in another room and they dragged one of my relatives over me."
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