It doesn’t matter what their father did or is suspected of doing, no civilised army takes children hostage until their father surrenders.
I’m not going say anything further because to express my feelings I’d have to use language that would require me to ban myself permanently from my own blog. And no I’m not even slightly surprised after all American soldiers have openly admitted using Iraqi children as human shields:
“The first time he saw them, Mayer admits that he was making the calculations of a man in the midst of a war. He was tired, he was battered, and he was back at a Hit street corner that he had patrolled many times before. In Iraq, repetition of any sort could be an invitation of the wrong sort - an event for which insurgents could plan. So Mayer and Schuller took out some of the candy they carried, thinking that if children were around, perhaps the terrorists wouldn’t attack.”
and instead of being courtmartialed for it and thrown out of the army in disgrace they get approving articles written about them on Military.com.
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Can we disgrace ourselves any further?
Scum, cowardly scum, filthy cowardly scum. What’ll be done to the kids? Nothing good I’ll bet.
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Grania,
We haven’t even begun to explore the depths of disgrace into which the US army has sunk.
I deleted a pack of comments because in response to deco’s question my temper and language broke down badly.
So I’m going to confine myself to saying that not one single serving member of the US forces is entitled to even a shred of respect or presumption of innocence, save in a court of law. They’re entitled to it in a court of law because even people like them are entitled to the protection of the law.
But until such a time as they drive these people out of their number and into the gutter where they belong - they’re not entitled to any courtesy or respect, filth like this has been known about for a long time, they know it, I know it. And they’ve done sweet FA about it.
No honour, no courage.
The same goes for those members of the US public who make excuses for them.
No honour, no courage.
Yeah - I saw your comment to Declan. We seem to have hit a new low in the US. I thought that the Haditha murders were getting some traction - but the deaths of the CBS crew moved it from the front burner. It’s bizarre - over the Memorial Day holiday we waxed poetic over the veterans of WWII but we can’t seem to examine our conduct in Iraq and now Afghanistan - again! I don’t know what to say.
Uh oh - I’d hoped I’d got rid of all of them before anybody saw them. Should have known that somebody’d have seen it. Sorry you had to read that.
I can’t bring myself to comment anymore on these atrocities. The words, such as they are, that I am able to form in my head sound so lame that I feel they would be an insult to the Iraqis that might read them.
Moving from the appalling to the omminous - From Christy at FDL-
“The NYTimes reports this morning that Gen. Casey has decided to take troops currently staged in Kuwait and move them into Iraq’s Anbar province in the west, due to increasing hostility in the area.”
(i.e. out of range from retaliation from the Iranians)
And yet griffon we must try lest people, not least those who commit them, think that our silence is consent.
Yes I saw that - it’s nearly 2:00AM here so I’ll just refer you over to an earlier discussion on MFI
This is at least the second draw down on their reserve.
g’night folks when you’re as stunningly hunkacious as me you need lots of beauty sleep ;-) I’ll post any comments tomorrow when I get up.
Janey mack please don’t apologize - I’m not a little hot house flower - we Dublin women are tough. it’s disgusting what is happening - you should have heard that pinhead Sean Hannity today on the subject.
no words, just tears …
I am so sorry for what my government is doing.
You of all people have nothing to apologise for Siun, you’ve always raised your voice against it and worked against it at home and abroad.