Dave Lindorff: America at War: Killing Cabbies in Iraq

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

America at War: Killing Cabbies in Iraq


If you know anybody who still supports Bush’s and Cheney’s criminal war against Iraq, have them watch a short news report aired on July 16 on ABC News titled Exclusive Look at Soldiers on the Front Line. (Note: You will have to go to the page and click on the headline) It will sicken you and anyone who watches it.

The news clip, an all too rare honest look at the war from a reporter allowed to see it first hand—in this case a cameraman named Sean Smith, from the British Guardian newspaper, who was imbedded with the Second Infantry Division’s Apache Company in Baghdad, shows tired and overwrought US troops who are into their fourteenth month of continuous battle, as they respond to a variety of battle situations. In one case, after watching six of their comrades burn to death trapped inside a Bradley Armored Vehicle that a roadside bomb has flipped over and ignited, the soldiers break into a house, looking for weapons, only to find themselves terrorizing an old woman with a walker, who dissolves into hysterical tears. Then, in another scene, the men open fire on a car cruising the neighborhood, which they fear might be a terrorist looking for a target. After killing the driver, they learn from a local woman that it was just a taxi driver she had called, who was trying to locate her address.

A clearly frustrated and angry GI, Specialist Michael Vassell, says, “I challenge anybody in Congress to do my rotation... Because we have people up there in Congress with the brain of a two-year-old who don’t know what they’re doing… I challenge the president to ride along with me for 15 months. I’ll do another 15 months if he comes out her and rides along with me…They won’t even have to pay me!”

A day in the life of the US war and occupation of Iraq.

Watch this video and in an instant it becomes clear why the US is losing there. It is a war against the people of Iraq. A war of terror in which the US military is the terrorist organization. And it is a way that pits the US against the people of Iraq. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

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1. It was a twilight zone moment for me the other night...

I don't watch much television, but I happened to be channel surfing in boredom and came across Nightline about a week ago; the video you describe in your OP was being shown.

I thought "shit, I just witnessed a murder". The moved on from that event as if it was no big deal; but I thought "shit, I just witnessed a murder".