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