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On March 31, 2004, four guards from the private security company Blackwater USA made the fatal mistake of entering a part of Fallujah, Iraq controlled by fighters resisting the US-led occupation.
The contractors were brutally tortured and murdered,...
by Brett Wilkins
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on Fri Jan 13, 2017 at 02:09 PM PST
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On November 19, 2005 members of the United States Marine Corps entered civilian homes in Haditha, Iraq and murdered 24 Iraqi civilians ...
by Clay Claiborne
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on Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 07:12 PM PST
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In a diary posted yesterday regarding the massacre of 24 innocents in the Iraqi town of Haditha, the diarist made an error common to those not familiar with Military nomenclature. I don't mean to ...
by Dave925
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on Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 06:00 AM PST
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For background, please see Horace Boothroyd III's post from yesterday .
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by NinetyNineNorth
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on Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 01:33 AM PST
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In a not so shocking outcome. The leading enlisted Marine responsible for the massacre will only be charged with dereliction of duty. The most he would have been responsible for would have been ...
by Horace Boothroyd III
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on Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 03:15 AM PST
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The above is an old Iraqi saying. It means, according to this post , that the difference between two people is so small that expecting a ...
by dancewater
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on Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 03:40 PM PDT
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On a Plane Ride Home From Paris Sitting Next to a Douchebag With an Ed Hardy Shirt Reading Glenn Bec 1441!
Whether it was Michael Wolff's "piece" in Vanity Fair on Politico or the Paris tap water that produced the explosive diarrhea on a hot sweaty July night in the City of ...
by johntully
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on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 12:44 PM PDT
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I've been talking about dehumanization a lot recently, as it pertains to race versus a sense of ascendancy and entitlement among some of our fellow citizens, how the latter allows one to do things ...
by redsmear1
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on Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM PDT
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Senator John Kerry was a young Navy Lieutenant when he attended the first Winter ...
by War Comes Home
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on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 06:09 AM PST
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Former US Army Sergeant Logan Laituri served a tour in Iraq before returning home and filing to be discharged as a conscientious objector. ...
by War Comes Home
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on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 06:59 AM PST
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Former US Army Medic Perry O'Brien served a tour in Afghanistan before returning home and filing to be discharged as a conscientious ...
by War Comes Home
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on Sun Mar 02, 2008 at 10:46 AM PST
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From March 14th to 16th, KPFA will suspend regular programming to broadcast the historic Winter Soldier hearings in Washington, DC. The three day live broadcast will ...
by War Comes Home
11 comments
on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 01:15 PM PST
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Once Again, Our Country Needs Winter ...
by jimstaro
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on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 04:23 PM PST
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This morning's sermon comes from something written after seeing an article in Vanity Fair with accompanying photos of the accused, excruciatingly young (to my old eyes) men involved in the Haditha ...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Sat Jan 12, 2008 at 08:48 AM PST
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There is a brutal occupation going on in Iraq, and we are the occupiers.
With that in mind, let's strike up ...
by boilerman10
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on Tue Jan 01, 2008 at 07:46 PM PST
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As reported on Countdown Last Night .
by Frank Vyan Walton
401 comments
on Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 01:41 AM PST
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One of the snipers charged with placing "bait" out to draw Iraqis into their killzone is quoted as saying " If you've never been outside the wire, you really have no basis -- ...
by OneCrankyDom
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on Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 09:26 AM PDT
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I'm really surprised this hasn't gotten more traffic
A Marine Corps sergeant is suing the 18-term congressman for making the charge, which the soldier claims is false. Murtha, who ...
by nathguy
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on Mon Oct 01, 2007 at 03:20 PM PDT
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Some of you may see a promotion to a fourth star and a cushy planning post as a reward, but the reality can be far different.
by high bitrate
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on Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 08:32 AM PDT
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An article about an ongoing in the Haditha massacre case wants us to believe this: Does a U.
by elishastephens
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on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 08:28 AM PDT
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