And now bringing to the discussion evidence of what we've been saying... we're not just the merciful, benign liberators of Iraq that many posters to this thread have been trying to portray:
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<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=591171">http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=591171</a>
US soldiers would kill civilians, says Marine
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
09 December 2004
A former US Marine has claimed that he saw American troops in Iraq routinely kill unarmed civilians, including women and children. He said he had also witnessed troops killing injured Iraqi insurgents.
Jimmy Massey, 33, a staff sergeant who served in Iraq before being honourably discharged after 12 years' service, said he had seen troops shooting civilians at road blocks and in the street. A code of silence, similar to that found in organised crime gangs, prevented troops from speaking about it.
"We were shooting up people as they got out of their cars trying to put their hands up," said Mr Massey. "I don't know if the Iraqis thought we were celebrating their new democracy. I do know that we killed innocent civilians." Mr Massey said US troops in Iraq were trained to believe that all Iraqis were potential terrorists. As a result, he had watched his colleagues open fire indiscriminately. In one 48-hour period, he estimated his unit killed more than 30 civilians in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad.
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