The documents the ACLU released today, describe substantiated incidents of torture and abuse by U.S. Marines, including:

holding a pistol to the back of a detainee’s head while another Marine took a picture (Karbala, May 2003) ordering four Iraqi juveniles to kneel while a pistol was "discharged to conduct a mock execution" (Adiwaniyah, June 2003) severely burning a detainee’s hands by covering them in alcohol and igniting them (Al Mumudiyah, August 2003), and shocking a detainee with an electric transformer, causing the detainee to "dance" as he was shocked (Al Mumudiyah, April 2004).

http://207.44.245.159/article8246.htm

“I was a sergeant with the Third Marine Battalion during the invasion, in the spring of 2003.”

“We killed more than 30 people. That was the first time that I had to face up to the horror that my hands were soiled with the blood of civilians. We laid down cluster bombs on them. - “We ended up massacring innocent civilians – men, women, and children."

http://207.44.245.159/article8249.htm

http://www.militaryproject.org


Informant: sash

by Harry Browne

LewRockwell.Com

03/12/05

'The chemotherapy of freedom and democracy' in reality means that 100,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, are dead. Is that what George Bush was right about -- that the march to freedom must trample over the dead bodies of human beings? Or don't Iraqis count as human beings?

Meanwhile, the Bush propaganda machine rolls on -- celebrating meaningless events that are supposed to be first steps toward meaningful events. But anyone who has studied the history of government knows that promises and first steps are worthless. I'll celebrate when some country is actually freer than before. And I'll really celebrate if that country is the United States of America...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne42.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Marine Corps recruiters are having an unusually hard time finding enough young people who want to be one of "the few, the proud."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20050310-1509-cnsmarines.html
http://tinyurl.com/5az82


From Information Clearing House

Something happened on the way to the wars of the future: The Pentagon became bogged down in an old-fashioned, costly and drawn-out war of occupation.

http://tinyurl.com/6jve5


From Information Clearing House

The cabinet secretary yesterday astonished politicians by disclosing that Britain went to war against Iraq on just one page of legal advice from Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general.

http://207.44.245.159/article8237.htm