September 2, 2011 - Regardless of whether one agrees with the way Wiki-Leaks releases confidential government records, its latest document dump includes an important, disturbing disclosure. A diplomatic cable includes evidence that U.S. troops in Iraq executed at least 10 civilians, including five children. The cable also suggests the incident was covered up. Although the U.S. military already has cleared American troops of any wrongdoing, the Obama administration has a duty to reopen the case. Ignoring the allegations or chalking the incident up to the fog of war is not an option if the United States wants to stand as a model to Iraq's nascent democracy.
The unclassified cable was from Philip Alston, the United Nations' special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and addressed U.S. officials in the days following the March 2006 incident in the central Iraq town of Ishaqi. The United States maintained that the deadly scene was the result of a firefight with an al-Qaida in Iraq suspect that resulted in the house he was hiding in being destroyed. A U.S. military probe in 2006 cleared the American troops, saying they followed standard procedure and any civilian deaths were unintentional. read more>>>
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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