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March 4 is the third anniversary of the murderous killings by soldiers in Afghanistan. Peter bergen: civilians have been treated like expendable, free and limitless cannon fodder. He asks: Why is it that US leaders cannot be prosecuted for serial murders. Bergen says u.s. Needs to rethink its approach to war crimes.
March 4 is the third anniversary of the murderous killings by soldiers in Afghanistan. Peter bergen: civilians have been treated like expendable, free and limitless cannon fodder. He asks: Why is it that US leaders cannot be prosecuted for serial murders. Bergen says u.s. Needs to rethink its approach to war crimes.
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March 4 is the third anniversary of the murderous killings by soldiers in Afghanistan. Peter bergen: civilians have been treated like expendable, free and limitless cannon fodder. He asks: Why is it that US leaders cannot be prosecuted for serial murders. Bergen says u.s. Needs to rethink its approach to war crimes.
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This coming March 4 is the third anniversary of the murderous
killings of innocent Afghan civilians by soldiers in Shinwar.
They were sprayed indiscrimiately with machine gun bullets by US soldiers who were taken aback by an explosion in a Coalition convoy passing through Shinwar district in the Nangahar province of Afghanistan. About a dozen civilians died on the spot while tens of others were wounded. The US soldiers behaved like cowboys in a John Wayne movie. After the explosion which resulted in the wounding of one soldier, the US soldiers rode in their vehicles for several km and randomly opened fire at passers-by. When journalists arrived at the scene, the soldiers confiscated their material about the incident. The killings immediately drew strong protests and condemnations from the locals and also from Hamid Harzai. The protests by the local people resulted in 120 soldiers being withdrawn altogether from Afghanistan. The next month their commander and one senior officer were relieved of their duties. $2,000 was reportedly paid to each family of the dead and wounded. In January 2008, a military court of inquiry in the US sided with the soldiers and declared 'they acted correctly'. Afghan civilians have been treated like expendable, free and limitless cannon fodder by the US military ever since Mr Bush decided that he had the right to invade the country. Bush was an unrestrained warmonger and now a war criminal and the Afghan civilians were totally helpless against such a beast. Today, their luck has still not changed one little bit. Where Bush left off, Obama has carried on. Carried on the dirty work. The evil work of spilling innocent blood. Doesn't Afghan civilians have civil rights or human rights ? Why is it that US leaders cannot be prosecuted for serial murders or serial killings of civilians carried out by US soldiers ? After all, the US president is their commander- in-chief. And he is the one who ordered them to the ground to do the wanton killing supposedly to fight terror. Why is it that US courts always find US soldiers not guilty of war crimes that they had very irrefutedly committed ? Are civilian lives so cheap that the money paid could not even buy one a short stay in a private hospital ? The US after 1945 has all along very happily gone about to almost everywhere killing and maiming at will because the rest of the world had absolutely no words to say anything about it. After 1945 the beast was fully on the loose. The US has now become a nation of hypocrites. And its leaders like Rumsfeld, Bush, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Gates and many others are devils in human form who are determined to wreck humanity and turn all of us into dehumanised creatures. The terribly evil US military has all along been guilty of using civilians outside the US as live targets or as objects of pleasure. US soldiers and special forces elements have murdered, slaughtered and also raped civilians all the way from Latin America to South East Asia, North East Asia, the Mid-East and now in south Asia (Afghanistan and Paksitan). Over the years many civilians were killed in non-combat areas like in Okinawa, S Korea and eleswhere by US soldiers and the soldiers were never prosecuted. They were transferred home instead. Civilians in combat areas fared even worse. Civilians in Iraq, Vietnam and other places where US soldiers used weapons of mass terror like napalm, phosphorous, DU and shockwave bombs and other terrible products of the US arms industry were openly targeted by burning hot shards of metal which pierced their bodies and tore open their insides. Do unarmed civilians deserve such treatment ? US soldiers routinely wear body armour including flak jackets. US soldiers always get to use the latest military toys but the civilians in the battle zone do not have such luxuries. They only have their feet and terror in their hearts to provide the means for them to cling onto their lives. As such, it is no surprise why innocent civilians always suffer so much when US soldiers are around. Five million in Vietnam. One million in Iraq. Yet Obama is dead set on continuing the deadly game in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama and the other Western leaders must explain why all these helpless innocent civilians do not seem to possess or do not seem to have the right to possess civil or human rights. Many a time, the word 'collateral' is bandied about by the US generals and the US media, perhaps as a way to explain why the civilians have to die or why these innocent people have to withstand red hot pieces of metal piercing or going into their bodies courtesy of Uncle Sam. So 'colateral' excuses the need for any civil or human right for civilians. Go tell it to all the US Embassy staff all over the world. These devils are so totally unaware that civilians in the battle zone where the US military operates have no civil or human right. These Embassy staff always like to portray the US as always working for the civil or human right of civilians. The US is actually a great devil and a very efficent corruptor of minds. The whole world and the whole of humanity must open their eyes fully and note the continued killings of innocent civilians by the very devious and evil US military. The US military has no right at all to regard civilians as cannon fodder. The US soldiers are all criminals. They are actually worse than the wild animals in the forest. They are on par with the creatures known to be inhabiting the netherworld. The US is an artificial country and its history is very recent and it has no right at all to go everywhere and plunder, rob, kill and massacre other peoples. The US is nothing but a big hypocritical nation that has a very warped sense of justice and fair play. It is a nation of murderers and killers and a nation of hypocrites. It is thoroughly EVIL.