Haditha - what have we become?
How did it happen that the land of the free and the home of the brave became a breeding ground for mercenaries and slaves?
When did the transition begin?
Or has it always been that way?
A U.S. marine told a court Wednesday that he had "pissed" on the head of one of 24 dead Iraqi civilians killed by his unit and watched a superior officer kill five Iraqis as they tried to surrender.Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz made the admission at a pre-trial hearing ahead of a series of military trials over the killings and alleged cover-up at Haditha, 120 miles west of Baghdad, in November 2005.
He said he knew urinating on the dead Iraqi was wrong but was enraged after one of his colleagues, Lance Corporal "T.J." Miguel Terrazas, had been torn apart by a roadside bomb.
"I know it was a bad thing what I've done, but I done it because I was angry T.J. was dead and I pissed on one Iraqi's head," Sgt Dela Cruz said.
The Haditha killings have prompted the biggest U.S. criminal case involving civilian deaths in the Iraq conflict. A total of seven U.S. marines face charges, including three marines who have been charged with murder.
Sgt. Dela Cruz was initially charged with murder but the prosecution dropped all charges against him last month and he agreed to give evidence with immunity.
Wednesday, at a pre-trial hearing ahead of the trial of one of the accused, Sgt. Dela Cruz gave evidence at a courtroom in Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego, California.
He said he watched how his squad leader, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, shot five Iraqis who were trying to surrender and then told his men to lie about the killings.
"They were just standing, looking around, had hands up," said Sgt. Dela Cruz. "Then I saw one of them drop in the middle. I didn't know what was going on, sir. Looked to my left, saw Staff Sergeant Wuterich shooting."
The Iraqi civilians had been standing by a white car with their hands interlocked behind their heads when they were shot, said Sgt. Dela Cruz.
"He [SSgt. Wuterich] told me that if anybody asked, they were running away and the Iraqi army shot them," Sgt. Dela Cruz said.
After the five men died, a team of marines led by SSgt. Wuterich allegedly attacked two houses with grenades and gunfire in an effort to find insurgents. The dead included women, children and the elderly.
The marines involved have said their response was a legitimate action because they were under attack.
SSgt. Wuterich is one of the three marines accused of murder. His lawyers contest Sgt. Dela Cruz's evidence and claim he has given investigators five different accounts of what happened. Defense lawyers say Sgt. Dela Cruz has been forced to give evidence against members of his unit in exchange for his freedom.
Wednesday Sgt. Dela Cruz was giving evidence ahead of the trial of Captain Randy Stone, a Marine lawyer. Capt. Stone is accused along with three other officers of dereliction of duty for failing to investigate the deaths.
Capt. Stone's civilian attorney, Charles Gittins, contends Capt Stone, 34, did nothing wrong because he thought the killings were a legitimate outcome of combat.
Gittins said Capt. Stone reported the incident up the chain of command and said he had been told not to investigate further.[snip]
How much more do we need to see before we realize what we've become - a nation of slaves and mercenaries beholden to international bankers and their corporate offspring.
Is it worth it America?
Is it worth the phony money and the tainted oil?
Is it worth your jumbo mortgage and your SUV?
Is it all worth losing our humanity?
Think about it long and hard because the world is watching and waiting to see what Americans will do to stop this insanity.
One must look past the title of "America" and go to the real organization behind these types of autrocities.
Who runs the government of America? Who has something to gain by having goi troops in the ME region?
Who might benefit from having a "controlled chaos" in the Iraqi, Palestine and Lebannon states?
I'm guessing it's the common American who works over at the gas station. The common American is asleep. And the Americans' that have awaken are apathetic from too much food and drink
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"...Voltaire
Enslaved by psychopaths. Ruled by maggots. Yes QRS, we are a “nation of slaves and mercenaries beholden to international bankers and their corporate offspring.”
SLAVES!
The maggots say, “If we leave, there will be chaos."
This is like saying, "If we stop killing people, some of those people we are killing might get hurt."
I appreciate that most people do nothing because they feel helpless, but there are other people that actually promote the horror. They watch Fox Noise. They listen to Fatboy Limbaugh.
Soon they will get a personal taste of the horror they support.
Zionism controlls the states. You know that. Heck, when you do talk to people about the truth, they get scared.
I'm serious. They get out right scared. We got alot of cowards in the US. Alot of cowards and imbeciles, thus the ease of manipulation by the more intellectually adept sons of cain, kenites and mongel turk/khazars who claim to be of Judah.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"...Voltaire
If you watch that BBC clip about WTC7 collapse you will hear him asking are there plans for revenge coming up or not. It seems that revenge is still going on happily ever after. How much is America shocked by such atrocities?! Not much I would say because they are just bloody islamofascist getting what they are deserving by their mere existence. At least they should show them some courtesy and nuke them all and save them from this agony of slow extermination. What a civilised way to democratize people of ...ooops...I mean islamofascist in Iraq. If they nuked them 4 years ago now they could be over with all ME fascists dead and lots of time for hunting down the rest of islamofascists in EU,US,AU, I mean rest of this new world.
"Let there be Light!"
I think each one of us, it does not matter where we live or what we believe are capable of 'evil', we are also capable of 'good'.
However most of us, have become selfish, superficial, greedy and egotistical because of the indoctrination we have received, our 'leaders' are evil and they have made us evil, the only solution is to reject our 'leaders' and their false world view to become real human beings again with character instead of superficial technique trying to impress others...we have to reject the role that they have made us play as indebted, enslaved consumers without power.
Only when we free our selves from our own greed, apathy and deception as individuals will we be a free society which cannot be manipulated by the evil.
The seeds of destruction are nearly always in the beginning of the affair. So just as the US was becoming a world power it contained the seeds of its own downfall.
Ironically life will get really bad under the reign of of the Bankers...and this will contain the seeds of the downfall of the Bankers reign, people will reject the Bankers way, turn away from it when things get worse...they will stop playing by the Bankers rules. It is inevitable, we just need to channel this rejection into fulfilling and constructive paths, and to avoid destructive paths, we must foster and make this seed grow into another tree of true civilization, before it too will eventually come to an end.
Their is hope for us all.
After all the excruciating pain of waiting for even an ounce
of real truth to surface about such a bloodbath as Haditha, and after all of our moral and philosophical assumptions have been set forth, and then set aside, I no longer question how something this horrible could have happened. I have only two real questions left, which are virtually one and the same.
My first question is still why ? did this atrocity happen.
My last question is still who ? actually made it happen.
For me, the answer always comes back the same for both,
but in the form of yet another question, which seems to me
to be a good enough answer in and of itself...that is -
Who had the motive, the opportunity, and the technique to set off an IED-EFP that triggered the entire incident ?
A photo contained in a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report obtained by The Washington Post shows a Marine inspecting the blast crater from a roadside bomb that destroyed a Humvee and killed the Marine who was driving it in Haditha. Criminal investigators noted that the photo was dated Nov. 19, 2005. Investigative reports show that the photograph, and numerous others of the incident that day, made their way onto Marine laptops and computer drives in the months afterward.