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Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Good idea  Turn your back on Bush Sorry  Sorry Everybody Onward Christian Soldiers. Liberators or conquerors?  From Blah3.com comes this disturbing image: Understatement: This might not be the best way for the Americans to represent themselves as they engage the insurgents in Falluja. First off, I don't blame the troops. They're under a tremendous amount of pressure and in a situation not of their own making. If they put faith in religion, the cross on the tank may be an impulsive, if not best best thought through, expression of that faith under extreme, frightening and life threatening circumstances. However, it would seem that smart leadership should go to great lengths to insure that the Iraqis and surrounding nations not see the Americans as a conquering religious army and encourage the faithful among the troops to "pray in secret", rather than represent their faith in such an offensive way. Dehumanization  'I got my kills...I just love my job' by Toby Harnden After seven months in Iraq's Sunni triangle, for many American soldiers the opportunity to avenge dead friends by taking a life was a moment of sheer exhilaration. As they approached their "holding position", from where hours later they would advance into the city, they picked off insurgents on the rooftops and in windows. "I got myself a real juicy target," shouted Sgt James Anyett, peering through the thermal sight of a Long Range Acquisition System (LRAS) mounted on one of Phantom's Humvees. "Prepare to copy that 89089226. Direction 202 degrees. Range 950 metres. I got five motherf****** in a building with weapons." Capt Kirk Mayfield, commander of the Phantoms, called for fire from his task force's mortar team. But Sgt Anyett didn't want to wait. "Dude, give me the sniper rifle. I can take them out - I'm from Alabama." Two minutes tick by. "They're moving deep," shouted Sgt Anyett with disappointment. A dozen loud booms rattle the sky and smoke rose as mortars rained down on the co-ordinates the sergeant had given. "Yeah," he yelled. "Battle Damage Assessment - nothing. Building's gone. I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job." [more] Fallujah  All the makings of a war crime by Tony Kevin (...) Falluja is now to be brought to heel by overwhelming military power. As I write this, the US attack on the city has begun. The message to Falluja from the US armed forces in Iraq and from Allawi was brutally simple: submit now to Baghdad's authority or face attack. It is still possible that resistance in Falluja will melt away in the face of US attack. While this would be a more optimistic scenario, I think it more likely at this point that the insurgents will fight, because too much is at stake politically for them to accept a bloodless Allawi victory. I look here at the - in my judgement, now more likely - scenario that Falluja insurgents will dig in and defy the invasion force. What I believe is then likely to be done to Falluja will be a war crime and crime against humanity, morally indefensible by any civilised standard or for that matter, by the Statute of the International Criminal Court (to which, conveniently, neither the US nor Iraqi Government adheres). [more] Insurgents will run wild, despite the Fallujah onslaught by Justin Huggler All eyes may be on Fallujah, but violence continues across Iraq. The US is selling the battle of Fallujah to its troops and to the outside world as a decisive moment, when the tide will turn against the militants - but the bloodshed across the rest of the country yesterday suggested that taking the city would not inflict a body blow to insurgents. [more]