Killing the wounded and bombing civilians is policy from the U.S. top. How can this be denied, when we are told so up front? If we allow it, as in Abu Ghraib prison, a guilty few will be scapegoats for the acts of their leaders.
An imbedded journalist traveling with a U.S. Marine squad that was cleaning up hours after the so-called fighting photographed a point blank murder with full sound and voices. The evidence is unmistakable. Is it the work of a single out-of-control man, or a growing mercenary military?
One individual, who we will call Marine, and who appears to be unnamed to this day, was photographed in the act of deliberately slaughtering a wounded man. Worse yet, we now know this unfortunate, unnamed man was found in a mosque among the dead, where he had been lying in his own blood for 12 hours, too weak to crawl away. We are asked to believe the shooting was justified by the shooters fears, even though the camera recorded him shouting in high-strung rage before he did it. Petitions are being filed in the shooters behalf, and conservative talk show hosts make demeaning comments about the victims over 50,000 watt stations about human beings whom they speak of as animals.
The U.S. press minimizes the crime by characterizing the victim as a combatant, though he was too weak to crawl, and an Уinsurgent, though they have no way of knowing if he was part of an insurrection or collateral damage. The Los Angeles Times put it this way:
Televised images of marine fatally shooting an unarmed, wounded insurgent in a Fallujah mosque were repeatedly broadcast on Arab TV.
The byline called the helpless man, a “combatant.”
