I killed innocent people for our government by paul rockwell

I've heard the number of deaths due to the Vietnam War (which probably includes deaths in Cambodia & Laos too), comes to 4 million. It wasn't just the US fighting the Vietcong, the South Vietnamese were fighting too and the majority killed were Vietnamese, regardless of which side they were on.

Women and children who died are not counted separately in any figures that I know. When you massacre a whole village and dump the bodies into a pit, you don't go and distinguish between the bodies (unless you're into necrophilia).

We will probably NEVER get a tally on Iraqi deaths, esp. women and children because to do so would indict the US for crimes against humanity. The neocons and religiouscons hate it when you abort fetuses, but have no problem with killing children by the hundreds.

One thing the media seems to rarely report is the fact that for every group of Iraqi freedom fighters there's a whole support group of women and children feeding them, running errands, etc. Whole families get decimated everytime a bomb is dropped on a house. But does this get reported. NO NO NO!

This is the press censorship I am talking about in other threads.

You cannot report about nor show images of the women and children killed by American actions in Iraq.

You can blame the insurgents for a lot of innocent deaths, but of course if WE HADN'T INVADED THEIR COUNTRY, there would be no insurgents and we'd have no need to discuss these unnecessary deaths.

Our continued presence in Iraq keeps the insurgency alive and killing, while our attempts to remove them just kills more women and children, not just insurgents.

BTW when they DO say "we killed a dozen insurgents" in a raid, that usually means about 3 or 4 adult males and 8-9 women and children. In fact I'm pretty sure there are probably twice as many non-combatants killed in every US action.

For example just count those killed in road blocks when the trigger happy Americans shoot first. Many, many of those dead are children and their mothers and fathers, who are completely innocent. In a matter of two or three seconds they are tried, convicted and executed by a US firing squad.

And this happens over and over again. And the US could easily count the dead in these circumstances.

Again it is our presence there that perpetuates the violence. The longer we stay, the more Iraqis and Americans die.

 

Yes, for the same reason some guy freaking out on an airplane without his meds is shot dead.

FEAR.

Fear everyone. That makes for a nice peaceful world, don't it?

Had your dose of FEAR today? No? Turn on FOX NEWS. I'm sure they'll fill you right up.

Fear Terrorists, Fear Democrats, Fear Michael Moore, Fear Liberals, Fear Muslims, Fear Osama, Fear your own people.

 

You see that's the BIG difference between most Xtians and Muslims.

Xtians usually fear death, Muslims don't usually.

Learn to live without fear, and maybe, just maybe, war won't be necessary anymore.

You fear Nukes
You fear Chemical Warfare
You fear Biological Warfare

Yet the US has the largest stockpiles in the world of these items, some of which have ALREADY BEEN USED ON OUR OWN PEOPLE! (sound familiar?). Like any weapon they can be used against those who possess them.

Why don't you try ridding your own country of that which you fear, before telling the rest of the world what to do...

And meanwhile the arms merchants (most of them American & British) make record profits.

 

The subject of this this thread is NOT depleted uranium. Want to talk about that, start a new thread.

This thread is about the US military killing and maiming innocent Iraqis.

Like these...

 

It's pretty obvious the interviewee is not an expert on DU, and it was the reporter who brought up the subject, not the interviewee.

To denigrate the rest of his report due to his lack of knowledge on this one subject, is completely unfair & biased, whereas the rest of his report based on his own experiences is the main point of this thread.

 

Keep on deluding yourselves.

Yes, the US hasn't hurt anyone in Iraq, ever.

And Bush is our savior, returned to conquer the evil muslims, women and children included.