What instigated the two battles of Fallujah was a massacre
of four Blackwater mercenaries on March 31, 2004. The event is described @
I have never seen anyone write about WHY the Iraqis
massacred and butchered these four mercenaries. I offer the following as one
possibility as to why the four were treated in this manner:
The Independent
Monday 4 June 2007
Johann Hari: Iraq's mercenaries - with a licence to kill
Colonel Thomas Hammed, who was placed in charge of
rebuilding the Iraqi military by Bush, explains, "They [the mercenaries]
made enemies everywhere. I would ride around with Iraqis in beat-up Iraqi
trucks, they were running me off the road. We were threatened and
intimidated."
In April 2004, mercenaries working for a private militia
named Blackwater were guarding US occupation headquarters in Najaf when a
protest by Shia Iraqi civilians began to stir outside. According to the
Washington Post and eyewitnesses, Blackwater opened fire on the protesters,
unleashing so many rounds so rapidly they had to pause every 15 minutes to
allow their gun barrels to cool down. A video of this attack made it on to the
Web, where a mercenary can be seen describing the Iraqis they are gunning down
as "fuckin' niggers".
The distinguished reporter Jeremy Scahill claims in his new
book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, that
mercenary troops in Iraq are even using "experimental ammunition"
that US forces are forbidden from firing. These bullets, made of "blended
metal", are designed to shatter on impact, creating "untreatable
wounds". One mercenary recently bragged about the ammo's impact when he
shot an Iraqi with it: "It entered his butt and completely destroyed
everything in the lower-left section of his stomach... everything was torn
apart."
I remember reading about the experimental ammunition at the
time. The company which manufactured it used to have pictures of its horrific
effects on their website.
So, our mercenaries used Iraqi "sand niggers" for
shooting practice, ripping them apart just for the fun of it. I have no idea
whether or not the four men ambushed in Fallujah had done any of these things;
perhaps they didn't. But the cowboys who did sealed their buddies' fate.
You can't treat people worse than animals and get away with
it. You may be an American who THINKS you can get away with it, but what goes
around comes around. As long as we continue to slaughter people around the
world, we will be making enemies who would be happy (given the chance) to
string us up by our heels and butcher us for fun ... much like we do to them.
And don't give me any crap that President Obama ad-Dajjal
changed anything. His drones are merely a slightly refined, long distance version of our cavalier
"shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out" attitude.
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