[antimedia] antimedia: This is something that will....

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Posted by antimedia:
This is something that will....
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   ....send [1]chills down your spine.

     If more proof is needed, consider the May 30 [2]USA Today story in
     which Marine Captain Andrew Del Gaudio described coming under
     machine-gun fire this past April after an IED killed four of his
     men. As he was about to engage, he saw that the enemy had placed a
     line of children in front of the gun, with two video cameras ready
     to film them as they were shot down. Del Gaudio held his fire, and
     was injured by the next rounds. His troops flanked the machine-gun
     nest before attacking, and the children survived. (Further
     testimony along the same lines is offered in the Wall Street
     Journal's June 6 "Best of the Web Today" by a unnamed officer under
     the heading "Letter from Iraq".)
     Clearly, there is no conceivable way to exaggerate the sheer
     viciousness of the fanatic Islamist.
     None of this excuses the alleged actions of the troops at Haditha.
     Nothing could excuse that. If guilty, they will be tried and
     punished as they deserve. But if they were goaded into attacking,
     if it was a setup, if the terrorists are deliberately working to
     create such atrocities, then it's a development we ignore at our
     peril. The My Lai paradigm must not be allowed to blind us to the
     possibility. This tactic (if that's the term I'm groping for) must
     be investigated, verified, and exposed. Otherwise Haditha, and the
     media firestorm surrounding it, will simply open the door to a
     never-ending series of such tragedies. To more lines of children,
     and more houses full of innocents.

   Still think the Marines in Haditha are "cold-blooded killers"?

References

   1. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/the_haditha_stratagem.html
   2. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-30-marine-allegations_x.htm