I hope very much not be censored by saying this, nor to be accused of trolling.
The killing of the US contractors/mercenaries in Fallujah was murder. It was not an act of self defence, it was a murder
What the American forces are now doing is murder, it is not retaliation or self defence, it is murder.
I read this passage in an American news agency site:
Quote:
In Fallujah, Marines halted their assault on Sunni insurgents to allow U.S.-picked Iraqi leaders — angry at the United States over the bloodshed from five days of heavy fighting — to hold talks with city leaders about how to reduce the violence.
Throughout the afternoon, fighting was reduced to sporadic gunfire. But when night fell, heavy explosions resumed as an AC-130 gunship strafed targets and soldiers and insurgents engaged in a mortar battle.
Iraq's top U.S. administrator, L. Paul Bremer, said the unilateral pause was also aimed at allowing humanitarian aid to enter the city and Fallujah residents to tend to their dead.
Many families, emerging from their homes for the first time in days, buried slain relatives in the city football stadium.
A stream of hundreds of cars carrying women, children and elderly headed out of the city after Marines announced they would be allowed to leave. Families pleaded to be allowed to take out men, and when Marines refused, some entire families turned back.
The heavy fighting in Fallujah — during which mosques have been damaged and buildings demolished — has made the city of 200,000 a symbol of resistance for some Iraqis and threatens to divide the Iraqi Governing Council and the U.S. administration that appointed it.
Marines agreed only grudgingly to a halt in fighting. After initially being ordered to cease all offensive operations, they quickly demanded and received permission to launch assaults to prevent attacks if needed.
"We said to them (the commanders): 'We are going to lose people if we don't go back on offensive ops.' So we got the word," Marine Maj. Pete Farnun told The Associated Press.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt underlined that talks between two Governing Council members and sheiks and clerics representing Fallujah representatives were not negotiations, suggesting the military would not be making concessions. U.S. officials were not participating in the talks, which began Friday.
Abdul-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi, a Shiite on the Governing Council, announced he was suspending his council seat until "the bleeding stops in all Iraq." He also met Friday with al-Sadr, whom U.S. commanders have vowed to capture.
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I feel so ashamed to be British, to be from a country that supports totally this action, when I read this.
I would ask, only that people know this is how I really fell, I am not trying to troll or incite anyone else, just to make my point, that I am deeply ashamed of the Iraqi occupation, that the taking of human life without just cause is murder, whether it is Iraqi's killing American's because they hate America, or American's killing Iraqi's because other Americans have died... murder is murder... every death suffered so I see and now must say is a crime before God.
To me the politics of this war are now invalid, it is no longer about WMD's (we found none), it is no longer about Hussain and his awfullness (he was awful, he is gone)... it is about power and occupation and the currency now seems to have become death.
When I read the above passage my blood ran cold. I seemed to see, that until their are radical changes the killing will never stop. I fear for myself also, the reprisals that will be visited upon my country (England) for this war will be terrible, they will be more murder.