Neocon-Nazi War Crimes
June 27, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org

By Schuyler Ebbets

Historian Omer Bartov points out that in the ideological confrontation 
with Russia, the German army reverted to the crudest moral code of war 
ever exercised. According to their doctrine, everything that ensured 
one's survival was permitted and considered moral, and everything even 
remotely suspect of threatening one's survival was defined as immoral 
and therefore destroyed. To reinforce this harsh philosophy, the German 
troops were indoctrinated by constant propaganda, which helped shape 
their perception of Russian civilians as combatants.  

In an interview conducted By Bob Graham for the Evening Standard in 
Baghdad, Sergeant First Class John Meadows revealed a similar moral 
justification for murder which has led to hundreds of innocent Iraqi 
civilians being slaughtered. "You can't distinguish between who's trying 
to kill you and who's not," he said. "Like, the only way to get through 
shit like that was to concentrate on killing as many people as you 
can..." Another soldier, Corporal Michael Richardson, 22, said; "There 
was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, 
I just pulled the trigger. It was up close and personal the whole time, 
there wasn't a big distance. If they were there, they were enemy, 
whether in uniform or not. Some were, some weren't."  

Hossam al-Sayed, Chief Correspondent for IslamOnline.net reported 
that American troops murdered more than one hundred Iraqi civilians, 
most of them killed while sleeping in their beds on the morning of June 
13, in Rawah, 400 kilometers to the northwest of Baghdad. According to 
eyewitness accounts, U.S. forces opened fire from tanks and helicopter 
gun ships in a residential neighborhood. After the carnage, Abu 
Saadoun a town tribal leader said, "The bodies of 12 of our boys were 
found tied with ropes, each with a bullet in the head. The Americans 
detained them and immediately executed them in this horrible way."  

One must wonder why America, a so-called "democracy," is using 
soldiers to slaughter civilians. Where has this monstrous idea of 
gathering up groups of innocent people and killing them come from? 
What can Americans possibly have to gain that will justify being 
labeled as "war criminals"? The U.S. Army's actions in the town of 
Rawah are ominously reminiscent of Nazi Germany's reprisal killings 
for the deaths of their soldiers in World War II.  

On March 23, 1944, a bomb exploded in Rome killing thirty-two German 
police. Hitler ordered Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, to execute ten 
Italian hostages for every German killed in the attack. Kesselring carried 
out Hitler's command assembling 335 innocent civilians, ten more than 
required. The people were herded into Ardeatine Cave and shot in the 
back as they knelt among the corpses of those killed before. Following 
the murders, the cave was demolished with explosives in an attempt to 
cover up the crime, but Kesselring was subsequently convicted of two 
counts of War Crimes and sentenced to death.  

Although Reich Fuhrer Hitler was able to escape justice by killing 
himself, his top field marshals and members of his inner circle were 
tried in Nuremberg, Germany for acts committed both before and during 
World War II. In a similar fashion, President Bush, General Tommy 
Franks, and others in the white house were charged by Belgium's 
Justice Ministry with "war crimes" and "crimes against
humanity," 
for murders committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The world has quickly 
recognized the criminality of the Neocon regime and their "never ending 
war," it will only be a matter of time before most of the American people 
recognize it also.  

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This Newsletter article is - copyright 2003 by Schuyler Ebbets 
(sebbets{at}comcast.net) Permission is granted for reprint in print, 
email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached.  

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Source: The Peoples Voice ....
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Cheers, Steve..

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