y,know, I think theres a lotta young kids over in this godforsaken sand land that really have no idea what the hell they´re doing there. They hear one thing and see something else entirely different every day. A lot of em are just pissing their pants and firing at anything that moves, which given their situation, is entirely understandable. The situation is far from being " under control".
i can see how some freaked out 20 year old kid in the desert could snap and make a mistake. I can also see how some gungho squirrel huntin inbred could take pleasure in being an instrument of god and taking down the nearest towel head in town.
i support the US troops in that we should get them the fck outta there. It was a mistake. big time mistake. There are currently thousands of professional mercenaries in afghanistan and iraq. They get paid up to ten times what your average national guard flunky pulls down but don´t have to eat the mre´s. They get paid by the same boss and have free rein. plus the deniability bonus by the big boy´s. lotsa shit is being commited by non military, albeit sanctioned, psychos getting paid to be dirty as hell.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/18193/
http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=434
quite possible that US soldiers (official) are getting hit with the guilty stick just for being in the neighborhood. seems that the US was/are also employing a scandalous quantity of ex israeli military "advisors". Several were abu ghraib "interrogators".
it´s next to impossible at this point to keep track of whos killing who and where the hell they come from. murder? accident? sheer terror? who knows. the thing is, there just doesn´t seem to be any end in sight. 4 more years? gimme a break.
may you live in interesting times. - ancient chinese curse.