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LTAYLOR1950@HOTMAIL.COM (LindaTaylor) wrote in message news:<20d9c349.0304200928.5b23096c@posting.google.com>...
> I did not catch this covered on our media outlets. Was this filtered
> out by our free media as something not good for us.
> =====
> MICHEL GUERRIN, Le Monde, 4/16/03
> http://www.counterpunch.org/guerrin04162003.html
> 
> Marines are conditioned to reach their target at any cost, by staying
> alive
> and facing any type of enemy. They abusively make use of
> disproportionate
> firepower. These hardened troops, followed by tons of equipment,
> supported
> by extraordinary artillery power, protected by fighter jets and 
> cutting-edge helicopters, were shooting on local inhabitants who
> understood
> absolutely nothing of what was going on.
> 
> With my own eyes I saw about fifteen civilians killed in two days.
> I've
> gone through enough wars to know that it's always dirty, that
> civilians are
> always the first victims. But the way it was happening here, it was
> insane.
> 
> At the roughest moment, the most humane of the troops was called Doug.
> He
> gave real warning shots. From 800 yards he could hit a tire and, if
> that
> wasn't enough, then the motor. He saved ten lives in two hours by
> driving
> back civilians who were coming towards us.
> 
> Distraught soldiers were saying: 'I ain't prepared for this, I didn't
> come
> here to shoot civilians.' The colonel countered that the Iraqis were
> using
> inhabitants to kill marines, that 'soldiers were being disguised as 
> civilians, and that ambulances were perpetrating terrorist attacks.'
> 
> I drove away a girl who had had her humerus pierced by a bullet.
> Enrico was
> holding her in his arms. In the rear, the girl's father was protecting
> his
> young son, wounded in the torso and losing consciousness. The man
> spoke in
> gestures to the doctor at the back of the lines, pleading: "I don't 
> understand, I was walking and holding my children's hands. Why didn't
> you
> shoot in the air? Or at least shoot me.?"