HR Watch: US Failure to count Civilian Deaths 'INCREDIBLE'...

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

quote:

"It's a tragedy that U.S. soldiers have killed so many civilians in Baghdad. But it's really incredible that the U.S. military does not even count these deaths"

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1021-01.htm

Published on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 by the Associated Press
Human Rights Watch Documents 20 Civilian Deaths in Postwar Baghdad; Dozens More Reported
by Karen Matthews

NEW YORK -- A human rights organization says it has confirmed 20 civilian deaths under questionable circumstances in Baghdad since May 1, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq, and has received credible reports of dozens more.

In a report released late Monday, Human Rights Watch also accused the U.S. military of failing to conduct proper investigations into excessive or indiscriminate use of force in the Iraqi capital.

''It's a tragedy that U.S. soldiers have killed so many civilians in Baghdad,'' said Joe Stork, acting executive director of the Middle East and North Africa division of the New York-based group, which monitors human rights abuses around the world.

''But it's really incredible that the U.S. military does not even count these deaths,'' Stork said. ''Any time U.S. forces kill an Iraqi civilian in questionable circumstances, they should investigate the incident.''

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On the Net: www.hrw.org

[Brucey]

1. Not only do they not count, more importantly

they do not investigate. There is murder going on. During the bombing Cheney was asked permission each time the US would target a place with lots of civilians. He approved every single time. These guys have no shame. Psychopaths are in charge of our government.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

2. call them what they are - war criminals in White House

War Criminals. Period.


For Starting a war of aggression.


quote

"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which
their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the
war, but that they started it. And we must not allow
ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war,
for our position is that no grievances or policies will
justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced
and condemned as an instrument of policy."

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson
Chief U.S. Prosecutor
at the Nuremberg Tribunals
August 12, 1945

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/jack02.htm

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