Shocking Admission on Killing Civilians by Top US General Almost Completely Ignored by Corporate Med

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Shocking Admission on Killing Civilians by Top US General Almost Completely Ignored by Corporate Media
MediaChannel.org / By Rory O'Connor
March 31, 2010

"We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," says top American commander.

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Despite new rules put in place by McChrystal, aimed at reducing the killing of innocents, such shootings have not dropped off. Although fewer in number than deaths from air strikes or Special Forces operations, their continuance, as the Times noted, "has led to growing resentment among Afghans fearful of Western troops and angry at what they see as the impunity with which the troops operate -- a friction that has turned villages firmly against the occupation."

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As noted by blogger Allison Kilkenny - one media observer who wrote about McChystal's statement — what the general admitted to may be a war crime:

“Military brass and the warmongering elite usually skirt war crimes accusations by saying the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations aren't conventional warfare. That is to say, the US is not at war with an official army, so anyone picked up on the battlefield (which is the entire world in the War on Terror) isn't a POW. They're an enemy combatant who does not have access to the protections afforded to enemy soldiers under the Geneva Convention.

This is a tricky way to circumvent accountability, but even this clever interpretation of international law can't cover the stink of McChrystal's admission. The US is occupying Afghanistan, and while there, they are killing innocent civilians, says the highest ranking military official in the country.



Rest of article at: http://www.alternet.org/media/146251/shocking_admission_on_killing_civilians_by_top_us_general_almost_completely_ignored_by_corporate_media

[Demeter]

1. Some People are a Bigger Threat Dead than Alive

You would think the military, of all mass killers, would be aware of this historical fact.

[malaise]

2. Many of M$Greedia's corporations

grow rich off of war and 'remember they're only killing those ugly bearded brown Islamofascists anyway' - kill, kill, kill!!! :sarcasm:

[ThomWV]

3. The DNI admitted the CIA assassinates US citizen, but only with the highest approval of course

Director of National Intelligence, in congressional testimony last month. We kill our own, no warrant, no court, no judge, no jury, no verdict. We just do it.

So if anyone is surprised that we slaughter foreign nationals?

[stray cat]

4. I had to read it in the obscure New York Times - and why does it surprise anyone?

we have known for years that innocent people die in wars and is common knowledge that people were being killed at road blocks who were later deemed to pose no threat