This War Is Dehumanizing Us All

The report today in the LA Times of a US military unit staging phony evidence on Iraqis and then killing them while unarmed, is itself enough of a reason for us to get the fuck out of Iraq. Read this horrible thing here, if you have a strong stomach.

One paragraph of note is this:

The man was kept in this position for at least half an hour, during which a child also wandered up to them and was held on the ground with a poncho over his head until a decision was made to release him, Vela said. Before leaving, the boy allegedly told them that the captive was his father.

The US soldiers thought briefly of killing the kid too but let him go, then murdered his father in icy cold blood.

The soldier testifying tried to detach himself, saying he didn't realize the bullet came from his gun, he was just following orders.

Isn't that the behaviour that got the Nazis in trouble? Didn't we learn anything?

Couple this with the rape/murder atrocity committed by a squad of Marines who wanted to rape a 14 year old Iraqi girl, then killed her whole family to cover it up --- how much more of this insanity can we or the world stand? It's clear this war is dehumanizing not only our Iraqi "friends" but also the dumb as dirt motherfuckers in uniform who don't seem to have the basic powers to discern right from wrong.

You think the Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam was an atrocity? Wait until the real stores start coming out about this Iraq fiasco, we will all die of shame.

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Maybe the best band in Los Angeles, and a great song by them too. This video is not bad considering it was shot for pocket lint. It's not the sort of vid that's going to be played on major outlets because it has such an anti-gloss to it. Also think they could have made it a tad more obvious that it was a guy and A GIRL eyeing each other through this video, because for several moments there I thought SSPU was taking a Broken Social Scene-like tack and throwing some homoeroticism in their audience's face, just to see the effect. Whatever. Enjoy it.

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