They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Monday, October 17, 2005

Iraq: 'Take them out' - April 2004


counterpunch: Last April [2004], an F-16 fighter jet cruising over Fallujah, the stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency, zeroed in on a crowd of people mulling about on a street corner in the heart of the city. The American pilot of the fighter radioed back to his mission commander asking for permission to "take them out."

The commander doesn't ask whether the street people are armed or pose any kind of threat to the plane or US troops. He simply instructs the pilot to fire away.
View [wmp] - ifilm provided

October 2005 - Iraq: Witnesses say 39 of Ramadi dead were civilians