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Titolo: Murtha: Marines killed civilians "in cold blood"

c'e' una certa logica perversa: prima distruggere tutte le infrastrutture
(governo, ospedali, strade, etc..) in modo che le rivalita' tribali abbiano
modo di sfogarsi al meglio.
Se poi non si ammazzano tutti tra sunni e sciiti, allora l'esercito US puo'
dare una mano. 
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/18/murtha/index_np.html
A senior House Democrat with close ties to the military claimed Wednesday
that U.S. Marines wantonly killed innocent Iraqi civilians, including women
and children, in an early morning raid last November, buttressing a March
report by Time.
"Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed
innocent civilians in cold blood," said Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, a
decorated Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and is among the most
influential Democratic voices on military matters. "This is going to be a
very, very bad thing for the United States."
Asked about his sources during a midday briefing on Iraq policy in the
Capitol, Murtha confidently replied, "All the information I get, it comes
from the commanders, it comes from people who know what they are talking
about." Although Murtha said that he had not read any investigative reports
by the military on the incident, he stressed, "It's much worse than
reported in Time magazine."
The civilian deaths are under review by the Naval Criminal Investigative
Service, which is also responsible for the Marine Corps. A Navy spokesman
declined to comment on Murtha's claims, saying that the matter is part of
an ongoing inquiry. He would also not comment on when the investigation
into the incident would be completed.
In March, Time described an incident in the western Iraqi town of Haditha --
the worst alleged case of U.S. troops deliberately killing civilians in
Iraq. Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, was killed in the early morning of
Nov. 19, 2005, by a roadside explosive device. In the hours that followed,
Marines searched three houses, killing a total of 23 people. According to
Time, the Marine Corps' initial report claimed that 15 civilians had died
in the same blast that killed Terrazas -- and another eight insurgents were
killed after a subsequent firefight with Marines.
But Murtha contended Wednesday that the military's initial report was wrong.
"There was no firefight," he said. "There was no IED [improvised explosive
device] that killed these people."
Last month, the Marine Corps relieved of command three officers who oversaw
the military unit responsible for the Iraqi deaths at Haditha -- Kilo
Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment.
Murtha, widely known as a foreign-policy hawk, grabbed the national
spotlight last fall when he suddenly called for the orderly withdrawal of
American troops from Iraq. His press briefing Wednesday was a six-month
follow-up to that initial call for withdrawal. The Pennsylvania Democrat
argued that part of the responsibility for the Haditha killings lay with
the Pentagon leadership, who had stretched soldiers too thin. "These guys
are under tremendous strain -- more strain than I can conceive of -- and
this strain has caused them to crack under situations like this," Murtha
said.
The psychological strain Murtha described has been well documented. Veterans
describe the violence of war as having a numbing effect on soldiers, making
it possible to carry out otherwise unthinkable acts. This is especially
true when a fellow soldier has been killed. "Once you reach that point, all
sorts of restrictions you may place on yourself are removed," says Rion
Causey, a medic in the infamous Army platoon known as Tiger Force, which
may have killed as many as several hundred unarmed civilians in the central
highlands of South Vietnam in 1967. Causey did not participate in the
atrocities.
Murtha visited the Haditha region in August, three months before the
incident. According to Murtha, a U.S. general there said at the time, "I
don't have enough troops to do my mission." 

 report by Time.
Murtha è affidabile sull'Iraq quanto Bertinotti o Rizzo.
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 Murtha è affidabile sull'Iraq quanto Bertinotti o Rizzo.
I blog che citi tu, invece, sono decisamente affidabili.
TSO, TSO!