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APRIL 9, 2010 1:03AM

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 If you have been under a rock this week and don't "get" the captioning of this photo, you need to watch this video:

 

 

This video shows war crimes.   Don't believe me?   Watch what happens at the 8 minute mark and then read this passage froom the Geneva Convention:

UN Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field

Article 18

"The military authorities shall permit the inhabitants and relief societies, even in invaded or occupied areas, spontaneously to collect and care for wounded or sick of whatever nationality. The civilian population shall respect these wounded and sick, and in particular abstain from offering them violence.

No one may ever be molested or convicted for having nursed the wounded or sick."

 

 If you have already watched the wilileaks video, a few things have come up since it was released Monday.

Here is an interview with the children we targeted in the Good Samaritan mini-van that was blown to hell 8 minutes into the wikileaks video.  The children an American hospital refused to treat:

 

Also, at 18:54 in the 40 minute Wilileaks video [The 1st video on this page] you hear the helo crew laugh about one of the US vehicles on the ground running over a body.  It turns out that man might not have been dead:

Journalist on 2007 Wikileaks video deaths: "these residents came and told me that the man who they drove over was alive, that he had crawled out of the van that had been shot to pieces and that he was still alive when the Americans drove over him and cut him in half..."

and if you think this 2007 massacre is an isolated incident, consider this:

US Marine: [In Iraq] carrying a shovel, or standing on a rooftop talking on a cell phone, or being out after curfew [meant those people] were to be killed. I can't tell you how many people died because of this. By my 3rd tour, we were told to just shoot people, & the officers would take care of us.   You should click over and read the entire article this quote is from.  It's sobering.

Contribute to Wikileaks here.   

Now the US military is claiming they "lost" their copy of the 2007 massacre video.  So it is a damn good thing Wikileaks is around so the army can borrow a copy from them. 

 

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It's no wonder there are no comments. What fuck does one say?
A good thing to say is we need to get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan and let NGOs rebuild the countries we've torn to hell. It would a be a hell of a lot less expensive and we'd stop committing war crimes.
I am amazed at how so many people seem to justify the actions in the video. There are a lot of sick, bloodthirsty, bastards in this country. Many of them are running the show.
When Wikileaks releases the video of the 97 Afghan civilians we blew away a few months ago, I wonder what the excuses of the internet hawks will be?

We need more videos like these to shock the conscience of the ordinary American and renew the anti-war sentiment. Maybe more whistleblowers will come forward after seeing the impact of these examples.
I witnessed countless violations, sociopathic behavior and actions that would lead to imprisonment or to another institution of reform during my four active years in the USMC. All by fellow Marines and military personnel.
Nothing they do today shocks me.
And I served during peace time.
You know that and I know that, but amazingly so many Americans refuse to open their eyes to the failings of our soldiers. Criticism is tantamount to traitorous non support of the troops.
Read Eugene Sledge's "With the Old Breed" and you'll see that dehumanization seems to be an inevitable result of warfare. It's deplorable and one of the reasons war should be avoided at all cost.
You know what scared me about this, is how much it reminded me of playing video games. It brought me right back to that childhood state of mindlessly killing the 'bad guys'.
I need to come back to watch the full video. I think your post should be part of the Remembrance Day tributes to Holocaust atrocities.

Sean's comment gives me pause: remote genocide is so much easier. (And I get Sean's excellent point.)
BBE,

Keep pounding this home. This is just one example of the atrocities that are occurring.
Fight the power. Rated.
How do you do it? The Most Viewed blog for how many days now? Amazing... since I was so sure your brilliant stream-of-consciousness radical ranting would only appeal to sympatico madmen like me. Way to go. There's hope for us all yet.
PS: Do you think all the females are actually digesting your ideas or are they just after your macho style and the 'body' of your text? I hate when that happens.
Aside from all that jazz---we needed to get the frakk outta foreign military intrigues 8 years ago! What is this guy doing? This latest presidential decision re Afghanistan is the old proverbial cold wash cloth of reality.
Aside from all that jazz---we needed to get the frakk outta foreign military intrigues 8 years ago! What is this guy doing? This latest presidential decision re Afghanistan is the old proverbial cold wash cloth of reality.
I regret the levity in my first post. I had not watched the Wiki-leaks video yet. Having seen all 40 or so minutes of it, I'm speechless now. As a Vietnam era veteran, I feel a deep sadness and shame. There truly is madness afoot. The calloused demeanor of these soldiers is unacceptable. You are correct. This constitutes war crimes. Preiod.
Maybe Wiki-leaks acn produce some good here to expose the facts surrounding this brutality. God damnit! I weep for the horror of it.
Thanks, Behind Blue Eyes. Great post.
I can't handle watching the horrors that I know must be in these videos.
Chilling. Shoot first and ask questions later.
The videos were horrific...