Iraqis killed by US troops ‘on rampage’

[toontra]

Seems more like Vietnam every day - Link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2103695,00.html)

According to Iraqi police, 11 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the house, among them four women and five children aged between six months and five years. An official police report obtained by a US reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers said: “The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people.”

It would appear that either US troops are out of control or they have orders to shoot at will, including women and children.

Read the whole article. This is perhaps the most chilling report I've read recently, and that says something!

[Airforce]

Seems more like Vietnam every day - Link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2103695,00.html)



It would appear that either US troops are out of control or they have orders to shoot at will, including women and children.

Read the whole article. This is perhaps the most chilling report I've read recently, and that says something!

Where in that article does it say that US troops have orders to shoot at will?

What I see:

He added: “If they are pissed off because a buddy got killed and they want revenge, that’s a violation of the rules of war.”

It's being investigated.

[toontra]

Where in that article does it say that US troops have orders to shoot at will?


What I said was either the troops are out of control (more likely IMO), or they have orders allowing the indiscriminate shooting of civilians.

Either way, this is making a dire situation even worse, if such a thing were possible.

[solvs]

The people I know in the military would never do such things, but there are some who aren't as civil. I was talking to a former Marine early today who mentioned the kill and rampage mentality that is burned into them during training, and the frustration that comes from not being able to act upon it. I'd like to believe it was an accident, but there are some bad eggs in the service. Put them in a situation like this, what do people expect to happen.

I still blame the higher ups.