Tuesday, October 15, 2002

I was not at Kuta. No-one I know was at Kuta. No-one I know was on the SIV-X either (350+ drowning off our NW coast). No-one I know was in Afghanistan when the USAF turned rubble to dust (3000+ dead). No-one I know was on the Basra highway when the US, our Ally in the War Against Terror(tm), strafed retreating Iraqi troops, killing them in their tens of thousands. (img) No-one I know was in the WTC. Just because our media is having conniptions about this doesn't mean I'm going to. Welcome to massacre fatigue.


"I'd rather be sailing."

Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the "Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway. The clear rapid incineration of the human being [pictured above] suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incindiary bombs. These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawl from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who "are out of combat." There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending seige of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force.
(Photo Credit: © 1991 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images)

Members of the US Armed Forces are on record in a number of places, joking about incinerated Iraqi soldiers, and others, being 'crispy critters'.

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