Nice.
After a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine in western Iraq, American troops went into nearby houses and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old-girl, residents told The Associated Press on Monday.Honestly, what do we expect? Their commanders, from Bush and Rumsfeld down, have lied to them from day one. They've told them to go nuts on people, only to deny it when the torture and abuse goes public. So seriously what do we expect? Our soldiers have been put in an impossible position by an incompetent president, a lying cheerleader of a secretary of defense, and a lapdog chairman of the joint chiefs. They have been given no plan for victory, are told the Geneva Conventions are quaint and irrelevant, and then we're surprised when things go horribly wrong.
The military says about 12 Marines are under investigation for possible war crimes by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service following the Nov. 19 insurgent attack in Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Who could have ever imagined the Iraq war would get out of control?
