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= = //" I am not satisfied with the court decision against those killers — they need to be tortured and// //executed because they killed innocent people,” said Tariq Abas al-Najar, 43, a taxi driver in Basra. “If Marines// //killed a sheep in Europe, the judge would punish them much harsher than for the killing of those innocent Iraqis.”//
 * =//__Anger in Iraq After Plea Bargain Over 2005 Massacre__//=

- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/world/middleeast/anger-in-iraq-after-plea-bargain-over-haditha-killings.html?_r=1

//The dehumanization of Afghan and Iraqi civilians that these massacres entail—one soldier who raped// //and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killed her and her family said “I didn’t think of Iraqis as human”—is, in fact,// //consistent with the wars themselves and the way in which the American public has come to see the Middle East.// //While the U.S. government speaks at length about the humanitarian impulses behind the wars—“saving” Iraqis and// //Afghans—the fact that the military thinks little of killing civilians en masse reflects the hollowness of this rhetoric.//
 * =//__America: Where War Crimes Are A Way of Life__//=

//-// http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/10/America-war-crime/

//On November 15, 1990, President George Bush declared, "Let me repeat, we have no argument with the people of Iraq. Indeed,// //we have only friendship for the people there." President Bush's "friendship" found a peculiar variety of expressions. In the course// //of his brief war against Iraq, president Bush killed thousands of civilians, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, and left the country// //in ruins... This campaign of systematic destruction also violated international law repeatedly by disregarding the rights of noncombatants,// //destroying Iraqi infrastructure, and using excessive force against Iraqi troops.//
 * =__//War Crimes Committed Against the People of Iraq//__=

//-//http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-warc.htm

// "Our efforts in Iraq have been critical to success in the global war on terror... As democracy gains in Iraq and // // Afghanistan, //// we are reminded that no democratic nation in the world threatens America. Saddam's removal has //  // advanced peace and //// democracy throughout the broader Middle East. America and the world are clearly safer with this //  // tyrant in the jail cell he has //// earned." //  - http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/2002056__rice_u_s_and_world_clearly_are_safer
 * =//__U.S. and World Clearly are Safer__//=

//The most ebullient welcome for the Americans comes from such supporters of Canada's presence in Afghanistan as retired// //Maj.-Gen. Lewis Mackenzie, who served with the United Nations force in Bosnia in the 1990s. He sees the U.S. move// //as an important morale booster for hard-working Canadian soldiers who tend to like and respect their American counterparts// //and have often trained together with them.//
 * =__//In Depth Afghanistan : Joint operations//__=

//-//http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/joint-command.html

//Since the United States started the War in Iraq it must end it with dignity and with the assurance of stability in that region. Early U.S.// //troop's withdrawal from Iraq will embolden Iraq's hostile neighbor Iran to continue its nuclear program in defiance of the United Nations'// //sanctions.Besides, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to annihilate Israel.For the peace of the world, if not only for// //the stabilization of the Middle East, the United States troops may have to stay in Iraq for a much longer period of time.//
 * =__//Is the War in Iraq a Good Thing for the United States to get involved in ?//__=

-http://arkwriter.hubpages.com/hub/iraqwargood