A week ago today, I [http://thepete.com/usg-probes-possible-massacre-by-marines/|blogged about a possible massacre committed by US Marines against innocent Iraqi civilians]. In the past week it's become depressingly obvious that this wasn't a "possible" massacre but an actual one.
Well, a week has gone by and http://News.BBC.co.uk [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5039420.stm|reported yesterday] that a video has surfaced that shows 11 dead Iraqi civilians with gunshot wounds. See, the US military said that the 11 Iraqis were killed when the building they were in collapsed on them. The US military also says the people inside were shooting out and that there were only 4 people that died.
The video apparently shows 11 people with gunshot wounds and no weapons.
Whoops!
The general idea now is that the US military rounded them up in the building and executed them.
Hm, should I stop calling this the Iraquagmire and start calling it "Vietnam Lite"?
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