Victims' families have come to expect their moment of redress and closure. If for illegally killed Iraqis, why not for our own dead?
11 October 2010 - It must be hurtful and frustrating for the families of the six British military policemen murdered by an angry mob in Iraq to learn at the weekend that the only two men accused of the crime have been acquitted.
But what about the rest of us, less emotionally engaged, how much should we share tabloid outrage? In fairness to the Sun, it has moved on, so that "Red Cap storm" gets less prominence today than the latest row over X Factor villainy: "Fans' fury at let-off for flop star." But the Daily Mail has turned up its own blood pressure with "Final betrayal of the Red Caps".
Is it? The 2006 inquest into the murders in the early days of the US-UK occupation revealed that antiquated radios and insufficient ammunition played a part in the loss of life. A board of inquiry had already found "no conclusive evidence that the deaths could reasonably have been prevented".
That much, alas, is an old story, older than the siege of Troy. Elsewhere in today's Guardian, Peter Preston laments a lost life – pointlessly lost, he argues – in Afghanistan thanks to wonky radios, the tragedy captured on camera for Channel 4.
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Aggrieved parents and family, led by Reg Keys, whose son Thomas (20) died in Iraq, had been expecting convictions and want an inquiry of the kind held for Iraqi deaths in British military custody. Whitehall says it will press for further trials of other Iraqi suspects. This will drag on. {read rest}
We know the costs in blood, never to totally in civilians, but what of the costs in treasury still not paid! How much to buy the coalition of the willing, how much to buy the CIA rendition and secret prisons globalizing torture, how much for the decades to come as to the results of both wars, more. Neither has been paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficit rises started Before 9/11 and nothing as to the peoples responsibility, the VA, as to just one of the needs in those results from!
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In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
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