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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Why Does The US Government Hate America?

The US government has promised to make public all the details of inquiries into the alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians by US marines last November.

Washington made the pledge following claims that the killings of 24 people in the town of Haditha were covered up.


Why aren't they waiting until after the trial? Don't they know about "innocent until proven guilty"?

Allow me to answer that. It's because there has to be transparency in a situation that could flare bigger than Abu Ghraib. Otherwise we give up the interpretation of the incident to a propaganda machine in the Islamic world that is already using it as a recruiting tool. Especially when there are allegations of a cover-up.

Of course, the government won't indict the real culprit: the war itself, and the conditions structured in the Pentagon that allow this to happen.

(I should mention that this is in response to everyone on the Right screaming that Jack Murtha should be censured for doing exactly what the government has now decided to do.)

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