Perhaps these Marines Took Gen:"It's fun to shoot people" Literally?

[leftchick]

At a panel discussion in San Diego Tuesday, a top Marine general tells an audience that, among other things, it is "fun to shoot some people.

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for 5 years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis continued. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

Story and photo:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4153541/detail.html

Now a horrible result of that type of brainwashing of the soldiers....

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020905Z.shtml

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"During the second week of the siege they entered and announced that all the families have to leave their homes and meet at an intersection in the street while carrying a white flag. They gave them 72 hours to leave and after that they would be considered an enemy," he says.

"We documented this story with video-a family of 12, including a relative and his oldest child who was 7 years old. They heard this instruction, so they left with all their food and money they could carry, and white flags. When they reached the intersection where the families were accumulating, they heard someone shouting 'Now!' in English, and shooting started everywhere."

The family was all carrying white flags, as instructed, according to the young man who gave his testimony. Yet he watched his mother and father shot by snipers-his mother in the head and his father shot in the heart. His two aunts were shot, then his brother was shot in the neck. The man stated that when he raised himself from the ground to shout for help, he was shot in the side.

"After some hours he raised his arm for help and they shot his arm," continues the doctor, "So after awhile he raised his hand and they shot his hand."

A six year-old boy of the family was standing over the bodies of his parents, crying, and he too was then shot.

"Anyone who raised up was shot," adds the doctor, then added again that he had photographs of the dead as well as photos of the gunshot wounds of the survivors.

[G_j]

1. these soldiers

will never be the same. They will need serious ongoing counseling when they FINALLY return to their lives (if they aren't redeployed from now to eternity)
The repercussions of this war will go on for generations and will effect countless other family members and friends.
Now just imagine the repercussions from the trauma and sickening violence so many Iraqis have suffered.

Imagine all the children both here and in Iraq severely traumatized by this war.

[Karenina]

2. This has been going on

for almost TWO YEARS. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Counseling in JAIL for these Troops

For soldiers to FOLLOW unlawful orders does NOT absolve them of MURDER.

I don't want to be any where near these MF Troops -- they are dangerous -- they have crossed the line -- as have the MF officers who ordered this genocide.

But then the US troops come from a long history of genocide -- of American Indians.

It almost seems like there is a deliberate plan to create terrorists -- or the other -- which will then justify the continuation of the military industrial complex.

Eventually the bushie regime wants to return zero federal taxes to any of the states and simply let the states raise taxes to cover state expenses. If the states don't want to raise taxes -- those states will become . . . what? Third world states??

[Vladimir]

4. I await Karl Del Ponte's indictments...

but I ain't holding my breath.