Friendly Fire US Style? Murdering their Own...

[conspiracy analyst]

Every time GI's appear to criticise the US military intervention while still in service they seem to die. They aren't the first or it seems the last. In Afghanistan a famous US sports star who joined the war effort out of increased patriotism was about to condemn the war and then he ...died.

The US army seems to constantly forget the lessons of history. In the Vietnam was fragging became widespread when soldiers used to bomb their officers with grenades ie the fragments which killed them, hence the term fragging.



US troops who criticised Iraq war strategy killed in Baghdad

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Thursday September 13, 2007
The Guardian

Two US soldiers who helped write a critique from the front saying America had "failed on every promise" in the war have been killed in Iraq, it was reported yesterday.

Staff Sergeant Yance Gray, 26, and Sergeant Omar Mora, 28, were among a group of seven soldiers serving in Iraq who wrote a piece excoriating America's conduct of the war. The piece was published in the New York Times last month.

The men were killed in Baghdad when the cargo truck in which they were riding rolled over, the Associated Press and local news outlets reported yesterday. The Pentagon had yet to confirm their deaths early yesterday.

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The criticism caused a flurry of public debate because of the candour with which the men, all serving in the 82nd Airborne, described the situation in Iraq.

There was also speculation they could face severe penalties for being so openly critical of the war. Another US soldier, Private Scott Beauchamp, who wrote a shocking account in New Republic magazine about a soldier treating a piece of a child's skull as a souvenir, had his mobile phone and laptop confiscated.

"Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise," the seven wrote. "When the primary preoccupation of average Iraqis is when and how they are likely to be killed, we can hardly feel smug as we hand out care packages."

The peril of service in Iraq was underlined during the course of writing the article: one of the co-authors, a Ranger, was shot in the head and flown to the US for treatment.

The men directly challenged official claims of progress in the war, calling the debate in Washington "surreal".

They also skewered the military's only real success story from the war - much discussed this week in congressional hearings on the war - the decision by Sunni groups in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, to join the fight against al-Qaida. "Armed Sunni tribes have indeed become effective surrogates, but the enduring question is where their loyalties would lie in our absence," the men wrote.

"We operate in a bewildering context of determined enemies and questionable allies."

The men's deaths were reported the day before George Bush is due to give a televised address in which he will try to persuade a war-weary public to support the war at least until the middle of next year. Mr Bush is expected to announce the withdrawal of 30,000 troops over the next nine months, which will bring US force strength to the levels earlier this year. But he is also expected to say he does not envisage the bulk of US forces leaving Iraq before he leaves the White House in January 2009.

In their testimony to Congress this week, General Davis Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador, accused Iran of arming and training Shia militias to fight a "proxy war" that risks further destabilising Iraq.

Yesterday, Gen Petraeus told a press conference that Iran was attempting to create a Hizbullah-like force that was trying to exert influence in Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, amplified that warning.

"Iran is a very troublesome neighbour," she told NBC television yesterday, warning that Tehran would try to fill any power vacuum created by the withdrawal of US forces. "What we are prepared to do is to complete the security gains that we've been making, to create circumstances in which an Iraqi government and local officials can find political accommodation, as they are doing in Anbar, and to be able then, from Iraq, with allies in the war on terror, to resist both terrorism and Iranian aggression."

[karlos]

I think more british troops have been killed by the americans than by the iraqi resistence or the afghan mujahadin
they call it friendly fire but most of these american GIs are just out on a jolly playing rock music on their mp3 players and shooting innocent Iraqis and Afghans for fun.

Tillman was killed by his own people too.
Every helicopter that gets shot down they claim it as an 'accident'

[conspiracy analyst]

What most people dont know or realise is that during the final years of the Vietnam war to recoup monetary losses due to the cost of the war, the Yanks got involved in generalised drug dealing. This they pumped into the youth movements which were against the war in Vietnam.

Know they have refined this policy. In order to finance their wars for oil, they invaded Afghanistan the moment the Taliban banned opium production and had reduced it. Like the criminals of old who in order to finance a bank robbery do a few burglaries in order to gain enough money from the stolen goods to buy they equipment they need for the banks, the Yanks have been in charge of Afghanistan over the last 6 years for one and only one reason. It brings in untaxable revenue to buy equipment for the war in Iraq.

All else about a man in a cave with a long beard is just stories for those too drugged out to know better.

This is what they did during the Iran-Contra affair as well. They flooded LA with crack-cocaine got Hollywood to promote the black gangster movies and used money from these affairs to ensure Iran and Iraq fought themselves to a stalemate. Keeping the Iranians and Arabs down through perpetual wars ensures they are divided and weak, they sell their oil for peanuts when not giving it away and the US continues its dominance.

I mean how come oil is sold for less than a litre of water? No economist has ever explained that to me nor will they ever...