UKIndep: "US Troops Turn Botched Saddam Raid Into a Massacre"

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4245.htm

US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad


28 July 2003: (The Independent) Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district of Baghdad yesterday into a bloodbath, opening fire on scores of Iraqi civilians in a crowded street and killing up to 11, including two children, their mother and crippled father. At least one civilian car caught fire, cremating its occupants.

The vehicle carrying the two children and their mother and father was riddled by bullets as it approached a razor-wired checkpoint outside the house.

Amid the fury generated among the largely middle-class residents of Mansur - by ghastly coincidence, the killings were scarcely 40 metres from the houses in which 16 civilians died when the Americans tried to kill Saddam towards the end of the war in April - whatever political advantages were gained by the killing of Saddam's sons have been squandered. A doctor at the Yarmouk hospital, which received four of the dead, turned on me angrily last night, shouting: "If an American came to my emergency room, maybe I would kill him."

Two civilians, both believed to have been driving with their families, were brought to the Yarmouk, one with abdominal wounds and the other with "his brain outside of his head", according to another doctor.

At the scene of the killings, there was pandemonium. .......

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[Jacobin]

1. This is all going from very bad to ghastly

Smirk needs to get beat....the neo-cons all need to be thrown out of office come 2004 and tried for war crimes.

This cannot go on much longer. The world is not going to stand for it.

[donsu]

2. I hope the rest of the world does something, anything to stop

the criminal bushgang, cause it ain't no easy job for us americans.

And just wait until the gang turns it's criminal eye on their country - oh yes.

[TXlib]

3. What do you think would happen

if the other nuclear-armed powers united and delivered an ultimatum to the US to turn over Bush and his regime, and every member of PNAC, to face tribunals in Belgium for crimes against humanity?

Would Bush burn the world, or would he step down?

Would our military allow Bush to burn the world, or would they stop him?

[donsu]

4. yes - questions we need answered

nt