Drop Weapons ~ US soldiers recount killing innocent Iraqi civilians 6/12/11

Drop weapons - The whole point is 'don't tell anyone'.
Former U.S. soldiers who took part in the Iraq war recount stories of how they killed innocent people and plant weapons on them.

The soldiers talk about what they say is the widespread practice of using "drop weapons" to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Huffingtonpost.com

A "drop weapon" is a weapon carried by a soldier for the purpose of placing on or near a slain individual "to make killings appear legally justified". washingtonpost.com

"When we arrived there, they gave us quite a few AKs and said keep them in case something happens," the online broadcaster, The American News Project has reported Sergio Kochergin, who served in Iraq as a scout sniper and now is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, as saying. The video was posted on the Internet on June 3, 2011.

He added that the "drop weapons" were distributed between soldiers under the orders of the chain of command.

"When mistakes were made we carried drop weapons. These weapons right here were taken from the Iraqi police...and this was just an example that we would take their weapons and carry them around with us in case we messed up and shot the wrong person," Jon Turner, a former Marine who served in Iraq.

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[forestpump]

If it was a just war it would be unfortunate, also accountability is important if you really want to win hearts and minds, if a family in Iraq suddenly gets a knock on their door saying their loved one was killed because he had an AK47 and the family knows that this person didn't have one or had no insurgency connections then their not gonna think very much of the Americans & people talk, that's why its better to face the consequences as an overall strategy

[procommenter]

Your sexual fetishes have no place here.

This site is concerned with homosexuality among marines.

[procommenter]

Teleprompter-reader Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."

— "60 Minutes" (5/12/96)

[procommenter]

U.S. soldiers are occupying & waging war in the nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan & God knows where else. No declarations of war have been made as prescribed by the United States Constitution. ALL participants are guilty of treason. The "I-was-just-following-orders" defense didn't work at the Nuremberg show-trials of 1946-7 and it won't work now. U.S. commanders have routinely violated the Yamashita/Medina Standard in regards to hierarchical accountability in cases of war crimes.

[procommenter]

The U.S. govt. sacrificed 3,000 soldiers at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the Empire of Japan; the U.S. govt. poisons and adulterates our water with the waste product sodium fluoride and the blood intoxicant known as lithium (as well as innumerable heavy metals and pesticides). The U.S. govt. clouds the skies with aluminum oxide and barium salt. I am able and willing to turn YOU over to Iraq's citizens for dispensation. Murder is murder. The murdering of children is especially abhorrent.

[procommenter]

A diplomatic cable made public by Wiki-Leaks provides evidence that U.S. troops, in 2006, executed 10 citizens of Ishaqi (Republic of Iraq), including a woman in her 70's and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.

[Minato Namikaze]

They aren't aiming for civilians. It's unfortunate but that's war. It's hard to know who's an enemy and who's a civilian out there, if they let an enemy go under their nose it cost them their life or their fellow soldiers life. An accidental civilian death is an acceptable loss in my opinion. Then again it's largely high command covering their ass. The whole situation is unfortunate

[M Robb]

Blake....they don't understand but I do. You either do it, or your name is tarnished. Killing civilians is wrong, but disobeying a lawful according to your commanders is also wrong to. Life in the military is a catch 22 that civilians will never understand.

[Jonathan Calabretta]

Yes these combat veterans should shut up, they clearly don't know what it's like being in a war.

Thank god Blake Weldon is here to set them straight via his long service in the 82nd Chairborn.

It are logicz!