Spencer Ackerman wants you to meet him halfway between his house and the straw man: Here’s where those who base their opposition to the war its promotion of human suffering have to meet halfway as well. If the U.S. stops prosecuting its end of the war, civilian casualties will not end. What will end is [...]
We Bought Thoreau This Straw Pony for His Birthday |
| By: Derrick Crowe Monday July 12, 2010 3:00 pm |
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Nothing to See Here, Folks: Covering Up a Massacre in Afghanistan |
| By: Derrick Crowe Thursday April 22, 2010 3:00 pm |
The video above shows a survivor of a brutal, botched special forces raid on February 12, 2010, in which U.S. and allied forces killed 5 civilians, including local Afghan officials and pregnant women. If that were the extent of the bad conduct in this incident, it would be devastating enough. Unfortunately, personnel under McChrystal’s command compounded the outrage by tampering with evidence at the scene and then attempted a propaganda job and cover-up of the massacre, which has now blown up in their faces.
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