U.S. blamed for 'tone' that inspired mutilations

Washington Times ^ | 3/06/04 | Tom Carter

[kattracks]

On April 28, 2003, just two days before President Bush declared the end of "major hostilities" in Iraq, members of the 101st Airborne Division occupying a school in Fallujah opened fire on about 200 Iraqi demonstrators, killing 15, including at least three schoolboys under the age of 10.

[kattracks]

Because of their beliefs (Wahabbism) and their former standing under saddam, I think these barbarians would have committed their atrocities, even if the 101st would have gone in throwing rose petals at them.

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[ladyinred]

So now it is the baby killers story is it? This smells of the leftist agenda to make this "Bush's Viet Nam." Eternal shame upon all of them.

[GeronL]

what was that tone b-flat?

[KellyAdmirer]

"[Mutilation] seems to be a habit in Iraq," Mr. Khalidi said.

Mr. Khalidi, if mutilation is such a "habit," it didn't require the US to inspire it. And, btw, using the word "habit" makes it all sound so benign, like twirling your pencil or tapping your fingers. Civilized people don't have "habits" of ravaging corpses and acting like that is some kind of wonderful thing.