That Other Massacre
Can you imagine what the public outcry would be if reports described Seung-Hui Cho’s killings at Virginia Tech as “serious misconduct“?
That’s how Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell’s report describes US Marine Corp. action on November 19, 2005 when they went on a rampage, raided a bunch of civilian homes, and slaughtered 24 innocent of anything except being in the wrong place at the wrong time Iraqi men, women, and children – “serious misconduct”.
A U.S. Army general concluded the Marine Corps chain of command in Iraq ignored “obvious” signs of “serious misconduct” in the slayings of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The report also found that
…..commanders fostered a climate that devalued the life of innocent Iraqis to the point that U.S. soldiers considered their deaths insignificant.
– and that there was “no interest at any level in investigating allegations of a massacre”.
It’s a very different story when it’s red blooded Americans being slaughtered by people from a foreign country isn’t it? There is a lot of interest at every level in investigating that…… but a bunch of men, women, and children, in a foreign country massacred in their homes by the few and the proud – not so much so ‘eh?
No need to wonder if we should blame video games, and no need to wonder if we should blame movies, or drugs, or bullying, or a broken heart, we know what we can blame this on – innocent Iraqi lives being considered insignificant by US Marines.
….. and I feel pretty confident in speculating that that’s the very same reason any atrocity committed in Iraq (unless committed by “them”tm of course) generated little reaction at home.
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There is a difference between terrorists that the media refer to as civilians and American citizens. Terrorists portray themselves as the victims, just like Cho who was for all intents and purposes a maligned murderer who also planned his actions ahead of time.
Terrorists drop their weapons when they’re traveling from house to house, in accordance with their manual. So if they were shooting an AK47 a few minutes ago and decided to move, they drop their weapon or afix it to the bottom of a table in the house they’re leaving, and run unarmed to the next location. They are the enemy, whether idiots like you want to recognize it or not. The fact that they were shooting moments ago is irrelevant according to liberals, because the point is they’re unarmed when they’re on the run, using civilian women and children as shields. They fake that they’re wounded with weapons hiding under blankets, use ambulances, mosques and hospitals for cover, which is against the Geneva Conventions, and all you liberals do is cry for them.
I don’t cry for them, I want them all dead. And if you had any sense in your head, you would, too.
Stop sending me your trackbacks to your vile screeds. I will not publish them.
/rant
I guess Cao missed the fact that the Marines found these dudes guilty.
“Vile screeds”, eh? No excess of drama there. I ain’t gonna go look, but I have the funny feeling the Cao’s site will feature at least one US flag, at least one image of the twin towers collapsing, and probably an eagle or two.
An Isolated Boy in a World of Strangers
Va. Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho’s isolation as a youth may have been exacerbated by the strains of th
A perfect example of why events like the Haditha massacre are not given the attention they deserve, when you hate a people enough the deaths of none of them matter, who kills them doesn’t matter either.
Many governments and groups down through history had that mentality, history has not looked on them kindly.
As for the trackback thing, a quick note Cao, the LinkFest that we all participate in isn’t called “trackbacks I agree with”, it’s called “open trackbacks” for a really specific reason – we all take what’s sent to us because that’s the way the system works. If you don’t want to participate I doubt anyone would complain too much if you left the network and set up a trackbacks Cao likes fest.
balbulican: the banner graphic on the site is a US flag and a Rambo-ish woman holding a high powered assault rifle, oddly enough it looks a lot like a Russian AK-47…. go figure ‘eh?
Right there with you, Cao… In fact, I have been deleting this clown show’s trackbacks so much, my spam filter caught on and has been rejecting them automatically now.
Kind of amusing that these schmucks do not realize that website owners have final say over what is on their webpages… but, I guess, what can you expect?
Kind of amusing that these two shmucks…
a) take the trouble to visit a website to prove how indifferent they are, and
b) think anybody here gives a shit.
Hey Cao, look at this: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/309485032.html
It’s simple upper-right-quadrant authoritarianism… there is one point of view that matters, and one point of view only, it’s something shared by all authoritarians
[...] Tim pointed me to a Swiftian Dilbert blog entry. Personally I think my SUV runs smoother and cleaner using veal or babies as fuel. In any case, using poor humans or young children as fuel would qualify as “serious misconduct” if you’re part of the US Army. I got that fact from Stageleft. [...]
“in accordance with their manual.”
Really, you have a copy of the so-called “manual” or are you just regurgitating some half baked crap Rush Limbaugh said once when he had a few particularly powerful percs?
Also, which part of the US Marine Corp manual says its is OK to murder 24 innocent civilians, including children?
“I don’t cry for them, I want them all dead. And if you had any sense in your head, you would, too.”
I have lots of sense in my head. If you want them all dead, that makes you a bloodthirsty authoritarian bigoted apologist for murder, if not a psychotic murder fetishist yourself. You are no better than the drones for Al Queda you say you hate. If they deserve to die, so do you.
My liberty is not threaten by some Islamic jerk 5000 KM away, it is threatened by idiots like you Cao.
Of course there’s a manual, folks like Hannity, Savage, Limbaugh, Cheney, Bush, et al., read from it to the masses daily.
[...] – it’s too damned late for that now. The process has been successful, the people have been desensitized to the deaths and massacres of innocents (remember cao and “I don’t cry for them, I want them all dead”), the torture and abuse of Muslims by US military forces results in an outpouring of support, the US president endorsing torture to obtain information results in the same, and the pogroms have started, who the hell can take any discussion of ethics seriously under those circumstances? [...]