viernes, 5 de octubre de 2007

Innocent deaths

The massacre of hundreds of villagers in 1968 that became a symbol for American brutality in the Vietnam war is very much known, but the fact that it is happening again it gives us a ghastly feeling.
This newspaper article is about Marines who may face trial over Iraq massacre as troops had shot 24 unarmed civilians.
If in Vietnam war thousands of Innocent's were killed, in this generation's war, the village is Haditha, north-west of Baghdad, where US marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians, including 11 women and children.
The ironic part of this war-chronicle is that the Pentagon also fabricated tales about a wounded and captured private, Jessica Lynch, that were later debunked.
People lying in the streets, bleeding, and the ones who watch it are also hurt! Iraqi soldiers come to rescue their people and a little girl shouts saying 'Why did you do this to our family?' And one Iraqi soldier tells, 'We didn't do it. The Americans did.'...

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