[lbo-talk] Murtha on civilian deaths

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children," Mr. 
>Murtha said. "It's a very serious incident unfortunately and it shows the 
>tremendous pressure these guys are under every day when they're out in 
>combat and the stress and the consequences."

Medicalization of war, innit?  When the Nazis did this stuff, we called it 
"reprisals."  When our New Age storm troopers do it, we call it "stress."  
For Nazis, war crime trials; for the US military, chill pills.

Carl