Thursday, April 01, 2004
US Will "Respond" To Fallujah Atrocities. posted by Richard Seymour
Following the Fallujah atrocities yesterday, in which employees of Blackwater Security Consulting were kidnapped and burned to death, the US promises to fight fire with fire.(Reuters) - U.S. troops on Thursday promised an "overwhelming" response to brutal killings in the Iraqi town of Falluja and vowed to hunt down those who shot, burned and mutilated four American contractors. Marines took positions on the outskirts of the restive town west of Baghdad where insurgents ambushed the contractors on Wednesday. "Coalition forces will respond," the U.S. army's deputy director of operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference...
They'll "respond" will they? They're like bloody jealous neighbours:
"Oh, now we've got to have an even bigger barbecue!"
I'm sure it'll all be done in good taste. Odd, however, the way in which these pictures have been shown on the media, and distributed on the internet and in the newspapers. Odd because, despite initial reticence, there has been no squeamishness. Whereas, during the war the BBC told us: "Many of the pictures coming from Baghdad of burnt civilian bodies were considered too dreadful to show you." Could this be related to the fact that these pictures are of Westerners killed by "them", whereas the others were of Iraqis killed by "us"? Of course not! Don't be facetious. These pictures are obviously less distressing than those other ones...