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Monday, September 24, 2007

It keeps making me more angry: was it a game of gotcha, or a game of get away with murder?
I read an MSNBC article on the gotca game, and it raises more questions than it answers.
First, it seems as if the sniper team was killing people to exact revenge. On its face, that sounds more like murder than warafre - but the plot thickens.

Military higher ups gave the snipers insurgency "drop" materials - which turns Iraq into a nasty game of gotcha, where if you lose, you die. People who pick up curiosities or things perceived to be valuable (in the midst of an economic crisis no less) are gunned down. but the plot thickens . . .

Apparantly some lower downs thought the drop materials were things to be planted on a dead body after a kill so that killing will not come under scrutiny.

And that's how the whole thing got uncovered: a U.S. soldier executed a captured iraqi, and then planted "drop" materials on him - all pursuant to what he beleived to be his orders.
So the question is: did military higher ups advance a reckless policy of baiting iraqis, and certainly killing the civilians we are supposed to be liberating? Or, did military higher ups sanction retribution killing and planting evidence?

Either way, iraqis are dead, soldiers will pay both criminally and psychologically (and perhaps spiritually) for murdering captives, America is more hated than ever, more terrorists have been created, the higher ups will get away with it, Cheney's pals made their money, and our next president will never investigate the war crimes of this president because by then it will be "time for the nation to heal."

Here is the objective article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20947008/