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Disturbing video of US Soldiers assisting in Civil War [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 1:46 PM on January 29, 2007.


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A report on British TV reveals a disturbing event in Baghdad recently.

Andrew Sullivan describes the situation as: "U.S soldiers watching as their Iraqi Army colleagues - Shia - brutally beat Sunni civilians to near-death, as U.S. soldiers hoop and holler in support. It shows what this president is now risking: that the U.S. will become a party to one side in a sectarian civil war. It is happening already. It must be stopped. However grim things are in Iraq, this president's policy could make things far, far worse."

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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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The Wages
Posted by: gazooks on Jan 29, 2007 3:59 PM   
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I don't see how it's helpful to sensationalize and distort a terribly sad and tragic situation.

It's an impossible situation to be escorts to newly empowered Iraqi soldiers who no doubt have the hateful legacy of Sunni atrocities motivating their vengeful actions.

The desensitizing to such violence is universal, unavoidable and to some, soul destroying.

It's inarguably, however, time to GTFO. NOW.

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Awesome almost as good as Chelsea/Millwall or RUC/IRA!
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Jan 29, 2007 4:58 PM   
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Leave it up to the Brits to show us some good violence. Not quite as good as Rangers/Celtic, Chelsea/Millwall, RUC/IRA, or BarmyArmy/Turks or, the best due to amateurs, any Orange Order parade through a papist neighborhood--but the video was ok. I wonder where the USA could've learned such violence or sectarianism....and who is willing to exploit violence to get ratings.....hmmmm.

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Baghdad Today, Phoenix Tomorrow
Posted by: eddie torres on Jan 29, 2007 8:23 PM   
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If US soldiers can't distinguish between 'just' behavior in war (as the video demonstrates), and US leaders can't distinguish between 'just' causes for war, what makes the people of Phoenix, Atlanta, and Seattle think they're safe when GI Joe finally comes home?

Private merc forces employed by Blackwater and CACI, under contract with DHS, using domestic intelligence supplied by Acxiom and Choicepoint, cleansing neighborhoods of Latinos (Phoenix), blacks (Atlanta), and Seattle (Asians).

They already know how. They're watching it happen every day. And when they come home, they'll do anything for the right price.

As long as they can play Hank Williams tunes in the HumVee.

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Deb
Posted by: debmcd on Jan 30, 2007 9:59 AM   
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And those self righteous pro war asses wonder why people spit on soldiers returning from Iraq? They deserve it. I'm sorry but this kind of behavior is totally unnecessary and those who participate deserve to be shot. My husband was in Viet Nam and had no sympathy for soldiers who abused or stood by while others abused innocent civilians. Where is that famous dicipline our military brags about? We need to get these children out of Iraq before they are no longer human. Bush should be ashamed of himself for doing this to our young people just to feed his ego. He should be jailed for this.

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» RE: Deb Posted by: willymack
Did anybody notice . . .
Posted by: bronx_girl on Jan 30, 2007 3:02 PM   
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how many times the statement 'once mixed, now shia/sunni ' was said? Really makes you think, doesn't it?

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