Cold Blooded Murder of family in Iraq ( and the need to change our policies)

After writing about this 10 days ago I did wonder what had happen? Here's a story like May-Li, in Vietnam, like many stories of what really happens, is happening in war. The photo above are the bodies of the family, shot in their home, by U.S. soldiers, in revenge.

The truth, as usual, was buried. Lies were told. BUT.....but there was a video.

QUOTES FROM FIRST PRESS NOTICES: (Click on title, above, to get to this NBC news source)
"The video, obtained by Time magazine, was broadcast a day after town residents told The Associated Press that American troops entered homes on Nov. 19 and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old girl, after a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine.

On Nov. 20, U.S. Marines spokesman Capt. Jeffrey Pool issued a statement saying that on the previous day a roadside bomb had killed 15 civilians and a Marine. In a later gunbattle, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed eight insurgents, he said.

U.S. military officials later confirmed that the version of events was wrong.

Murtha, a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, said at a news conference Wednesday that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that "there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."

Military officials say Marine Corp photos taken immediately after the incident show many of the victims were shot at close range, in the head and chest, execution-style. One photo shows a mother and young child bent over on the floor as if in prayer, shot dead, said the officials, who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity because the investigation hasn't been completed.

One military official says it appears the civilians were deliberately killed by the Marines, who were outraged at the death of their fellow Marine.

“This one is ugly," one official told NBC News.

Three Marine officers — commanders in Haditha — have been relieved of duty, and at least 12 Marines in all are under investigation for what would be the worst single incident involving the deliberate killing of civilians by U.S. military in Iraq.

The Marine Corps issued a statement in response to Murtha's remarks:

"There is an ongoing investigation; therefore, any comment at this time would be inappropriate and could undermine the investigatory and possible legal process. As soon as the facts are known and decisions on future actions are made, we will make that information available to the public to the fullest extent allowable."

Murtha held the news conference to mark six months since his initial call for "redeployment" of U.S. forces from Iraq.

He said U.S. forces were under undue pressure in Iraq because of poor planning and allocation of resources by the Bush administration."
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So now we have video and photos of torture and now cold blooded murder of innocent woman and children. In Europe the existence of our secret prisons has been confirmed by the EEC (although still denied here)
Considering this I suppose the persistent claims by Muslims in Iraq about many woman being raped.

I guess we'll just have to wait till the videos come out.

Then maybe we can get out -- Get out of Iraq: ASAP. And.....even better, put the misguided money we've spent on this war to good use, to uniting our nation, to stirring up hope, to doing things worthwhile for ourselves and our nation. Just imagine what could be done with such billions and billions of dollars a month.