'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?' God Help Us!

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2758829.ece

Interviews with US veterans show for the first time the pattern of brutality in Iraq
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 12 July 2007
It is an axiom of American political life that the actions of the US military are beyond criticism. Democrats and Republicans praise the men and women in uniform at every turn. Apart from the odd bad apple at Abu Ghraib, the US military in Iraq is deemed to be doing a heroic job under trying circumstances.

That perception will take a severe knock today with the publication in The Nation magazine of a series of in-depth interviews with 50 combat veterans of the Iraq war from across the US. In the interviews, veterans have described acts of violence in which US forces have abused or killed Iraqi men, women and children with impunity.

The report steers clear of widely reported atrocities, such as the massacre in Haditha in 2005, but instead unearths a pattern of human rights abuses. "It's not individual atrocity," Specialist Garett Reppenhagen, a sniper from the 263rd Armour Battalion, said. "It's the fact that the entire war is an atrocity."

A number of the troops have returned home bearing mental and physical scars from fighting a war in an environment in which the insurgents are supported by the population. Many of those interviewed have come to oppose the US military presence in Iraq, joining the groundswell of public opinion across the US that views the war as futile.

This also hurts the hearts of Americans at home having to hear what mister Bush has done. Man, if that guy had a conscience he would never stop crying. I'd like to have some of the drugs he and Laura are on. Some kind of booze in a pill. Man.

He is an evil entity, I knew that long ago, long before he went to the WH.

When Karla Faye Tucker was about to die, he sneered and chuckled; he actually enjoyed the thought of this woman's death. What Tucker did was a horridly violent crime, and I'm not saying she should have been paroled or exonerated; but she had come to grips w/the reality of what she had done, she atoned, as best she could for that night of bedlam. If bush had any sense of Justice, compassion or even the slightest notion of how a system should work, he could have pushed for a commutation to Life w/o parole.
But no...it was his desire to relish in the thought of another's death.

People like this are seriously ill and for good measure, cowards of the lowest order. If he had committed a crime, where the penalty was death...he'd be screaming about the injustice, he'd soil himself every time he realized he was going to die at the hands of another. Because he has the power now, to order the deaths of untold thousands, and he feels he'll never be held accountable, he is in his "glory".

It is a sad state of affairs for humanity, when people like this gain any semblance of power...:(