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War on Terror: Massacre in Fallujah, April 2004
June 1, 2004 - 1:45pm -- nolympics
Frank Wallis writes
The War on Terror: Massacre in Fallujah, April 2004
New Report Questions Bush Government's Claims
"It's not that I encourage my son to hate Americans. It's not that I make him want to join the resistance. Americans do that for me." – Abdul Razak al-Muaimy, resident of Fallujah
"People will bend to our will if they are afraid of us." – USMC Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne
A year before the massacre of April 2004 the citizens of Fallujah witnessed an American invasion and the deaths of eighteen people at the hands of the US military. Fallujah (pop. 200,000) is 35 miles west of Baghdad on the Euphrates River. The massacre of April 2004 cannot be understood without reference to a series of tragic events that took place in the previous year. The sixty-eight page report by historian Frank Wallis shows that the hundreds of deaths which took place in Fallujah met the definition of massacre, and were the result of a poorly planned and badly managed political and military campaign aimed at Saddam Hussein and foreign terrorists. The military arm of the George W. Bush government thrust itself into Fallujah to destroy an enemy that did not exist, and concluded the operation with a futile status quo ante. The same people that Bush's government sought to drive out of Fallujah returned to power. Resistance to the American intrusion was homegrown, and not under the direction of foreign terrorists. Culpability for the massacre rises to the top of the military chain of command, and hence to the Bush government.
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Copyright 2004 by Frank Wallis. All rights reserved.
Frank Wallis writes
The War on Terror: Massacre in Fallujah, April 2004
New Report Questions Bush Government's Claims
"It's not that I encourage my son to hate Americans. It's not that I make him want to join the resistance. Americans do that for me." – Abdul Razak al-Muaimy, resident of Fallujah
"People will bend to our will if they are afraid of us." – USMC Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne
A year before the massacre of April 2004 the citizens of Fallujah witnessed an American invasion and the deaths of eighteen people at the hands of the US military. Fallujah (pop. 200,000) is 35 miles west of Baghdad on the Euphrates River. The massacre of April 2004 cannot be understood without reference to a series of tragic events that took place in the previous year. The sixty-eight page report by historian Frank Wallis shows that the hundreds of deaths which took place in Fallujah met the definition of massacre, and were the result of a poorly planned and badly managed political and military campaign aimed at Saddam Hussein and foreign terrorists. The military arm of the George W. Bush government thrust itself into Fallujah to destroy an enemy that did not exist, and concluded the operation with a futile status quo ante. The same people that Bush's government sought to drive out of Fallujah returned to power. Resistance to the American intrusion was homegrown, and not under the direction of foreign terrorists. Culpability for the massacre rises to the top of the military chain of command, and hence to the Bush government.
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Copyright 2004 by Frank Wallis. All rights reserved.