Neocon-Nazi
War Crimes
By Schuyler
Ebbets
thepeoplesvoice.org
30 June, 2003
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 ones survival was permitted
and considered moral, and everything even remotely suspect of threatening
ones 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
Germanys 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 Hitlers 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.
This Newsletter article is
© copyright 2003 by Schuyler Ebbets ([email protected]) Permission
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