U.S. Troops Kill Iraqi Municipal Leader in Baghdad

Democracy Now (Pacifica news service) says,
"In Baghdad, U.S. soldiers have shot dead a member of the U.S.-appointed local Iraqi council in Sadr City. The council leader, Muhammed Kaabi, was killed while he was approaching the council offices Sunday. The U.S. claims he attempted to take a weapon from a soldier when the troops stopped him and asked to search his car. Local residents said he never attempted to grab a weapon. One city hall employee said, "It was killing for the sake of killing. It was not self-defense." Also in Iraq, U.S. forces have detained 20 men who are being questioned about possible ties to Al Qaeda. "

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/150223

Can you say Saigon, 1964? I thought you could.

lol

Not good confirmed :shrug:

Why are our troops killing innocent brown people? Is it hate or something else?

where life was so cheap, people got popped for silly shit all the time. Don't like the cab driver? Blow his brains out. Don't want to pay a hooker? Kill her.
All that and more.

The troops know what is going on. They know about the people getting offed in dribs and drabs and the stress of wondering if and when you are going to get it that way is worse than "combat" whatever that means these days.

There is nothing worse that realizing that the hundreds of people you can see on a street can hide any number of bad guys armed to the teeth and your next breath can be your last.

It sucks, let me tell you from first-hand experience. I was always much happier on small-unit raids or full-blown regiment stuff than I was walking the streets on patrol.

This is how fascism operates.

:eyes:

PBS documentary was very good...media in Viet Nam like media today...
intimidated by government

This war is lost.

All I hear is excuses as to why not and no resounding cry to pack it in.

And swing the bastards responsible! After a fair trial at the Hague, of course.

alive long enough to get home. shooting anyone who makes them flinch.

Attacks at many different places at once.

It's not on the same magnitude, but I think the strategy is the same.

they will need therapy for years to come.

Too bad the VA won't pay for it.

or the governing council member that they mistakenly shot at yesterday?
Or the brother of the governing council member who was shot?
This is a *new* governing member that was shot?

Really, this is becoming almost farcical (or it would be if it wasn't so pathetic)