American War Crimes in Fallujah, Iraq

Yep, nothing like treating the Iraqi's in the same brutal, sadistic and murderous manner the Israeli Occupation Force treats Palestinians.

Hell, sooner or later, we're bound to shoot, maim, terrorize, bomb and kill our way to peace in Iraq. Using the highly successful Israeli model.

1.6 million Iraqi dead. Only 19 million or so left to kill!! How about a big Texas cheer for this slaughter....Yehaaaaa

The Israeli's have been butchering Palestinians for over 60 years. I bet if we put our hearts and F-16's into it, we can wipe out the Iraqi's in less than 20 years.

Wanna bet? Any takers? What's the Vegas line?

Now pardon me, I don't mean to be rude, but I have to attend church to give thanks for having GW as our president

Take that Iraq, for not bowing and scraping enough when America's at large war criminal and #1 gutless coward, King George demanded that Hussein kiss his posterior.

Boy oh boy, do those two craven cowards, Bush and Cheney, know how to get tough with pregnant women and kids or not? Our heroes....sigh....

Fallujah, the information war and U.S. propaganda, from leaked U.S. army intelligence analysis

"The absence of Western media in Fallujah allowed the insurgents greater control of information coming out of Fallujah. Because Western reporters were at risk of capture and beheading, they stayed out and were forced to pool video shot by Arab cameramen and played on Al Jazeera. This led to further reinforcement of anti-Coalition propaganda. For example, false allegations of up to 600 dead and 1000 wounded civilians could not be countered by Western reporters because they did not have access to the battlefield. "Western reporters were also not embedded in Marine units fighting in Fallujah. In the absence of countervailing visual evidence presented by military authorities, Al Jazeera shaped the world's understanding of Fallujah."

This account, however, is false. There were at least two "Western reporters," as well as other Western civilians, inside Fallujah giving detailed information on the effects of the fighting on civilians. While briefly detained by rebels, they were quickly released, rather than beheaded. The report ignores these reporters as they were independents, neither embedded with the U.S. military nor bound by the implicit rules of the mainstream media to give special consideration to U.S. military claims and perspectives. Further, the accounts of these reporters and observers contradicted American military claims.

Dahr Jamail, at that time a reporter for now defunct New Standard, felt obligated to go into the besieged city.

"As I was there, an endless stream of women and children who'd been sniped by the Americans were being raced into the dirty clinic, the cars speeding over the curb out front as their wailing family members carried them in. "One woman and small child had been shot through the neck -- the woman was making breathy gurgling noises as the doctors frantically worked on her amongst her muffled moaning. "The small child, his eyes glazed and staring into space, continually vomited as the doctors raced to save his life. "After 30 minutes, it appeared as though neither of them would survive."

Source: Wikileaks

The only danger to reporters covering the war crimes being committed by U.S. Forces in Fallujah was the danger of being shot by American troops, as this account shows:

Jo Wilding, a British observer also among the Westerners in Fallujah, was in one of the ambulances fired upon, on a trip to pick up a pregnant woman and transport her to the hospital. She and the ambulance staff hoped that the presence of Westerners would help protect from American attack. They were wrong:

"Azzam is driving, Ahmed in the middle directing him and me by the window, the visible foreigner, the passport. Something scatters across my hand, simultaneous with the crashing of a bullet through the ambulance, some plastic part dislodged, flying through the window. We stop, turn off the siren, keep the blue light flashing, wait, eyes on the silhouettes of men in US marine uniforms on the corners of the buildings. Several shots come. We duck, get as low as possible and I can see tiny red lights whipping past the window, past my head. Some, it’s hard to tell, are hitting the ambulance I start singing. What else do you do when someone’s shooting at you? A tyre bursts with an enormous noise and a jerk of the vehicle. I’m outraged. We’re trying to get to a woman who’s giving birth without any medical attention, without electricity, in a city under siege, in a clearly marked ambulance, and you’re shooting at us. How dare you?"

"During the questions, when asked about shooting at ambulances, Abbas confirmed that U.S. forces shot at ambulances, not only in Fallujah and the approaches to Fallujah, but also in Sadr City. He agreed that the acts were criminal and said he has asked the IGC (Governing Council) and Bremer [U.S. governor of occupied Iraq] for an explanation."