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A national scandal? There were never any consequences, except for the people who brought the video to light. The US was involved in plenty of war crimes in Ira
by DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
A national scandal? There were never any consequences, except for the people who brought the video to light.
The US was involved in plenty of war crimes in Iraq, such as the following documented cases:
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massa...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_200...
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaqi_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaqi_incident
The US worked with militias, such as the Wolf Brigade, that were notorious for conducting torture (in particular, it has come out that US forces passed on detainees to the Wolf Brigade for torture).[5] At the height of the war, bodies were being dumped in the open every day in Baghdad with gruesome signs of torture.
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brigade_(Iraq) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brigade_(Iraq)