Support our war criminals

[RE]

Let's not forget US soldiers who have already solidly established their war
criminality in Gulf War 1, particularly Barry McCaffrey.  The link below has
more info, drawn from a fine piece by Seymour Hersh that appeared in the New
Yorker.  Hersh did a great job of portraying the wide range of responses on
the part of US personnel to the fighting, from McCaffrey's search for a
glorious career finale to the horror of front line soldiers ordered to open
up on Iraqi troops retreating with the guns down (apparently, the Iraqi army
has been told this time around that will be a sign of surrender).

I'd hope this time around the isolation of the US administration might make
punishment of crimes like this a possibility.  After the courtroom for
Sadaam's trial clears, it could be used for assholes like this.

Randy

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n000/a158.html?126

-- In ``Overwhelming Force,'' in the May 22, 2000, issue of The New Yorker,
Seymour M. Hersh reports on the activities of the 24th Infantry Division
during the 1991 Gulf War. The 24th was commanded by General Barry R.
McCaffrey, who now serves as the director of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy. Hersh concentrates on three episodes in the
campaign: the Battle of Rumaila, on March 2, 1991, which took place two
days after President Bush declared a ceasefire; and two incidents, on
February 27th and March 1st, in which Army personnel have been accused of
wrongly shooting Iraqis who posed no threat to them and who, in the case of
the February 27th incident, had already surrendered. All three of these
episodes have been investigated by the Army, which found no wrongdoing,
but, Hersh reports, key witnesses and information were either missed or
ignored. Hersh interviewed more than two hundred past and present enlisted
men and officers over the six months he spent preparing this account,
including the Army's own investigators.