3 Year Anniversary: 1,372,972 American Civilians Killed *PART 2*

Yesterday's "Part 1" post was very successful. You have to read some of the great "Reverse Reality" news stories DU'ers contributed:
(just a quick sampling: here here here and here)

Now I've found a timeline from www.thinkprogress.org that makes it super easy for you to pick a story and contribute your own little REVERSE-REALITY news story!

Please give it shot, as people are telling me this is one of the most powerful ways of illustrating the human cost of this invasion.

EVERY CONTRIBUTION IS VERY APPRECIATED!

From yesterday:

Here is the Timeline for you to grab stories from:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x701153#706705

or the original at

http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Thank you for your contribution, kick, recommendation, OR ESPECIALLY ALL THREE!

Happy Anniversary, :sarcasm:x11.44

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8/02/03

American Group Given Bodies of Bush Daughters 5 minutes ago Washington D.C. - The Iraqi military handed over the bodies of George Bush's daughters Jenna and Barbara to the American Red Cross, which will bring the corpses to their hometown of Crawford, Texas, the Iraqi Army said on Saturday. "The Red Cross will take them to Crawford and from there somebody will hopefully claim the bodies," said a spokesman for the Iraqi forces.


Note: This is not a threat or any kind of statement about Mr. Bush's kids. This is simply a role reversal of an AP story that appeared on 8/3/03.

Washington D.C. - Shortly after a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi officer in a western California town, Iraqi troops went into nearby houses and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old-girl, residents say.

The military is investigating possible misconduct by the Iraqi troops and confirms there is a video, which Time Magazine says shows the aftermath of the Iraqi forces' assault.

Residents contacted by The Associated Press described what happened after the Nov. 19 roadside bomb in the town of Sacramento, 90 miles northeast of San Francisco, as "a massacre."

James C. Hendrickson, whose brother and six other members of his family were killed in the incident, said the roadside bomb exploded at about 7:15 a.m. in the Sacramento suburb. An Iraqi Humvee was badly damaged.

The military acknowledged Monday it was investigating the incident after it was approached by Time with accounts from residents, officials and hospital authorities in Sacramento as well as a videotape purportedly showing the aftermath of the incident.

Military officials declined further comment.

An Iraqi military statement shortly after the November attack described what happened as an ambush on a joint Iraqi-U.S. patrol, with a roadside bombing and subsequent firefight killing 15 civilians, eight insurgents and an Iraqi trooper. The statement said the 15 civilians were killed by the blast, a claim the residents strongly denied.

Residents said there only was a roadside bombing, and all the shooting was done by Iraqi troops.

Time, in a story in this week's edition, reported that an Iraqi colonel went to Sacramento for a week long probe to interview Iraqi troops, survivors and doctors at the morgue. The magazine cited unidentified military officials close to the investigation.

The probe, Time reported, concluded that the civilians were killed by Iraqi troops and not a roadside bomb, and that no insurgents appeared to be in the first two houses raided by the Iraqi forces.

The probe found, however, that the deaths were the result of "collateral damage," investigators said.

"It's like training children, basically, says an Iraqi colonel. We first have to teach then to think, then show them how to police, how government works, and how to carry out corruption-free elections. These Americans have never really known freedom. They always had their decisions made for them."

"Some people think white people aren't capable of governing themselves," said the Iraqi president. "To them I say they are wrong."