if only someone heeded mr lasseter

these are our sons and daughters. the ones who committed this atrocity. the ones who were sent over to iraq. the ones who really don't know what the hell they're doing there. i am SURE they psychologically cracked. who in their right mind could slaughter innocents? understand, i do NOT find them blameless. they should be held accountable but i DO find others far more guilty. king george and his entire court for example. they are ultimately responsible for any and all actions we commit in the middle east. we were sent over based on a pack of lies. we are being killed and maimed and we are killing and maiming others. we stirred up a civil war (which most likely WOULD have happened with or without us, we just helped get the ball rolling) and eventually we're just going to leave. well we ARE building that GIANT base over there (they're calling it an embassy compound, i have to shake my head at that)

over this weekend, i spent ten hours watching the ten episodes of band of brothers and band of brothers. i'll tell you it was quite an intense experience. it drained me. this was a war with (how do i say this???) ummm more of a purpose. an understandable purpose. at least there was more concrete evidence (such as pearl harbor. yes, i know the powers that be probably KNEW about the bombing prior to it happening yet let it happen). i know atrocities happened during that war too. even at home; such as the japanese interment camps. i could not imagine myself in THAT war, world war ii (which my father was in the tail end of; navy on a mine sweeper. he was also in korea) which i most likely would have found justifiable as opposed to THIS 'WAR'. this unjust war based upon lie after lie after lie. get our daughters and sons home NOW

Haditha Massacre: KR Reporter, Last August, Noted Worries There That U.S. Marines Might 'Crack'

By Greg Mitchell Published: May 28, 2006 12:50 PM ET
NEW YORK New revelations suggest that U.S. marines committed atrociities in Haditha, Iraq, last November, killing at least two dozen civilians after an American was slain by a roadside bomb. Three months before that, Tom Lasseter, longtime Baghdad correspondent for Knight Ridder, filed a report from that area noting concerns that the marines there might "crack under the pressure." Today, on Memorial Day, the Los Angeles Time published a story based on an interview with one of the marines in Haditha that day. Lance Cpl. Roel Ryan Briones claims that he did not participate in the rampage but was involved in the cleanup. He said his worst moment, and one that still haunts him, was picking up the body of a young girl who was shot in the head. "I held her out like this," he said, "but her head was bobbing up and down and the insides fell on my legs."Here is Lasseter's Aug. 28, 2005, story, as it appeared then. Lasseter recently won a top Overseas Press Club award for his reporting from Iraq.*HIT, Iraq -- The inability of U.S. forces to hold ground in Anbar province in western Iraq, and the cat and mouse chase that ensues, has put the Marines and soldiers there under intense physical and psychological pressure. The sun raises temperatures to 115 degrees most days, insurgents stage ambushes daily then melt into the civilian population and American troops in Anbar find themselves in a house of mirrors in which they don't speak the language and can't tell friend from foe. .......