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Iraqi massacre papers found in junkyard
// Iraqi civilians were being killed all the time. Maj. Gen. Steve Johnson, the commander of American forces in Anbar, in his own testimony, described it as “a cost of doing business.”
The stress of combat left some soldiers paralyzed, the testimony shows. Troops, traumatized by the rising violence and feeling constantly under siege, grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civilians deliberately while their fellow soldiers snapped pictures, and were court-martialed. The bodies piled up at a time when the war had gone horribly wrong. //
http://www.nytimes.co...junkyard.html?_r=1&hp
This is probably the reason the US are leaving in 2011 instead of 2005. The US went in to liberate the Iraqis from Saddam. Do you think they feel liberated today? Or just relieved the invasion is over?
The stress of combat left some soldiers paralyzed, the testimony shows. Troops, traumatized by the rising violence and feeling constantly under siege, grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civilians deliberately while their fellow soldiers snapped pictures, and were court-martialed. The bodies piled up at a time when the war had gone horribly wrong. //
http://www.nytimes.co...junkyard.html?_r=1&hp
This is probably the reason the US are leaving in 2011 instead of 2005. The US went in to liberate the Iraqis from Saddam. Do you think they feel liberated today? Or just relieved the invasion is over?
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I was very much opposed to the invasion of iraq and still am.
However, the actual war went very well, from the invader's point of view. It effectively ended in 2003.
What went wrong was the aftermath, partly due to incompetence and also due to the campaign of terror waged by Al-Qaeda to foment and exacerbate the sectarian tensions in the country.
How people feel now will depend who you ask.
However, the actual war went very well, from the invader's point of view. It effectively ended in 2003.
What went wrong was the aftermath, partly due to incompetence and also due to the campaign of terror waged by Al-Qaeda to foment and exacerbate the sectarian tensions in the country.
How people feel now will depend who you ask.
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