The Reality Of War Creeps To Surface
Q: How were the civilians killed?
DELGADO: It was common practice to set up blockades. The Third Infantry would block off a road. In advance of the assault, civilians would flee the city in a panic. As they approached us, someone would yell: “Stop, stop!” In English. Of course they couldn’t understand. Their cars were blown up with cannons, or crushed with tanks. Killing noncombatants at checkpoints happened routinely, not only with the Third Infantry, but the First Marines. And it is still going on today. If you check last week’s MSNBC, they dug out a father and mother and her six children. We were constantly getting reports of vehicles that were destroyed (with people in them) at checkpoints.
Q: Your unit, the 320th Military Police, was stationed at Abu Ghraib for six months. Who were the prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Where did they come from? Do you have any new information not yet reported in the media?
DELGADO: There were 4,000 to 6,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib. I got to work with a lot of officers, so I got to see the paperwork. I found out that a lot of prisoners were imprisoned for no crime at all. They were not insurgents. Some were inside for petty theft or drunkenness. But the majority – over sixty percent – were not imprisoned for crimes committed against the coalition.
This is a disturbing interview. My brain has already sorted and re-filtered the information so I don't have to consciously remember some of the details described. This is NOT fighting to free these people - this is slaughtering anyone who looks Middle-Eastern and being proud of the resulting gore.
So, how's that Osama bin Laden hunt going? We sure showed him, didn't we?
by MG at 6:35 AM
5 Comments:
Found you through Blog Explosion. Your blog is great. It's nice to know that other people out there have stopped drinking the Kool-aid.
There's a lot of us out here, Charlie - just check my links. Thanks for stopping by!
Mox,
Thanks for the update. I hadn't seen the interview, but frankly, I am not surprised in any way. The atrocities of the actions of war criminals are always hienous. But if those folks happen to be on the winning side, they never get prosocuted for their crimes.
As to the disaffected youth, make that all of placated, plump, supersized America. The folks who protested the Vietnam Conflict are still alive, but they remain silent.
The downside is that protest really doesn't work. If we all really didn't believe in the work of W, Rove and Co. we would just simply not send in our taxes. Or just stapled our tax returns together with short note to the President saying, "Dear Mr. Bush. Don't use my tax money to kill innocent Iraqi citizens. Thank you."
That aught to snarl up the works a bit.
Okay, so I realized that, in making this comment, this could be a good post on its own, so I am linking to your location and posting my comment on my blog.
Blog on sister.
Power to the people, Cos.
Not paying taxes will just get you a load of shit. Voting these asshats out of office is much better. Just spread the words and hope that people decide to use their brains.
God damn. Almost as sad as the acts themselves is the fact that this kind of thing does not hit the mainstream in any meaningful way. Same with Vietnam, when the enemies were Gooks. It was all right to kill Gooks because they were subhuman and they fought dirty. Now we're killing innocent Arabs and it'll be a long time before anyone is held accountable -- if ever.
As for not paying taxes, payroll withholding makes it tough to protest this way. They already have a lot of the money you owe...
Like Moxie sez: Vote the bastards out!
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