USA War Crimes - Vietnam vs Iraq

Every day, US military forces in Iraq are attacking civilian populations in a calculated effort to drown a growing popular insurgency in blood. But one would hardly know the dimensions or brutality of the atrocities being carried out in the name of the American people from the sparse and sanitized coverage provided by the major press and broadcast outlets that purport to disseminate "the news."

The US media—owned and controlled by a handful of huge corporate conglomerates—play an indispensable role in the mass murder of Iraqi men, women and children. Together with the Bush administration and the two major parties of US imperialism—the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate John Kerry, no less than their Republican rivals—the media are complicit in a crime against humanity of immense proportions, one that dwarfs any crimes committed by the various political leaders who have been targeted for destruction by the American ruling elite in recent years: from Panama's Noriega, to Serbia's Milosevic, to Saddam Hussein himself.

One can stare at the 24-hour cable news networks from sunup to sundown and get no sense of the carnage in towns and cities from Baghdad, to Fallujah, to Ramadi, to Hilla in the south and Tal Afar in the north that is left in the wake of US rockets, bombs, tank shells and sniper rounds. The evening news reports of the major networks provide at most a fleeting image of the death and destruction, inevitably hedged with absurd avowals from the US military that "precision" attacks were carried out against "terrorist" and "anti-Iraqi" targets.

As for the press, one day's front-page report of US helicopter attacks on unarmed civilians or air strikes against urban centers is eclipsed the next day by the latest hurricane threat or new poll numbers on the upcoming election—an election in which no discussion of the legitimacy of the US subjugation of Iraq or the real war aims behind the bogus ones used to promote the war is permitted.

No country's media is more cowardly, or more artful in churning out the official line and excluding any serious criticism or analysis, than that of the USA. It would be absurd to hold up the British media as a model of conscientious and objective reporting, but even there, articles occasionally appear that provide some insight into the reality of the situation in Iraq.

The Guardian newspaper, for example, on Tuesday carried an eyewitness account on its front page of the American helicopter attack on unarmed Iraqis that occurred Sunday in central Baghdad. Thirteen Iraqis were killed and dozens were wounded when US copters repeatedly fired rockets into a crowd that had gathered around a disabled American armored vehicle on Haifa Street, near the Green Zone that houses the US and British embassies and the offices of Washington's puppet government.

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[WavesOfTrolls]

neocolonialist motherfuckers

[Russki08]

USA is like cancer on the planet's body: it starts wars killing hundreds of thousands civilians in other coutries, it polutes nature, it causes different kinds of economic disasters and revolutions. Cancer must be removed!

[oiReWiin]

@MrMiddle54

ok

1) dropped 2 nukes on a country which is now why everyone seems to have nukes

2) they invade everyone just because they feel they can

3) they came into ww2 late and then tried to act like they won it on their own

4) they will be the reason for a nuclear war and the extinction of man

[oiReWiin]

@TheThermite kill whites for world peace? if you see a riot on TV like london riots 99% of the people there are fucking blacks, we should start up slavery again

[FuBuh1n1Zombikiller]

and yet still US soldier's are calling them selves heroes -__- i dont think that goin g to vietnam and killing children and women is a heroic act .

[Madara2233]

you people are so naive

[crazylocoguitar]

@WorldAgainstUSA fuck yah

[residentmagnum]

@WorldAgainstUSA it is just the best of a very bad situation

[shamiking1]

@BryantFinlay Sensible people on this planet didn't hate any religion, race, color & country. Most of the people here are not against USA, we are against US policies & US administrators."

US bad relations with many countries & nations doesn't mean that its people don't want good relations with other countries but its the government policies which have caused a dis-rest in the world.

Political Science says: " Countries give aid to other states just because of their own profits "

[BryantFinlay]

@shamiking1 It astounds me to see the people on here railing against and promoting violence against Americans while a lot of your countries are taking aid from us and wearing Western garb. Hypocritical much? There's no reasoning with stupid irrational people like you. Word

[shamiking1]

@BryantFinlay What happened, you extremist son of motherless goat?

[shamiking1]

American Involvement in Wars: US vs. Great Britain(1812-15) Texas vs. Mexico(1836) US vs. Mexico(1846-48) U.S. Civil War(1861) US vs. Spain(1898) world war 1 world war 2-Nuclear attacks(1945) Korean War(1950-53) Vietnam War(1960-75) US vs. Cuba(1961) US vs. Panama(1989) Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina(1995-96) invasion of Afghanistan(2001) invasion of Iraq (2003) Thumbs up if you hate US policies & US administrators...!