Over the last five years and up until a couple of months ago, the wholesale killing in Iraq has mostly been a result of Iraqi on Iraqi violence. That has changed. More and more, large numbers of civilians in Iraq are being killed by American forces working to extend the geographic control of its puppet Iraqi government and protecting the safety of the American "Green Zone", from insurgent attack.
One of the worst things an occupying force can do when trying to pacify a subject population, is to routinely and indiscriminately kill large numbers of innocent civilians. The next worse thing they can do, is brag about it to the International press. Everyday now we get a body count for Baghdad, Basra, Najaf and Mosul and a blow by blow account of how they died. The US military spokesman of the day, always prefaces his side of the story by saying, "We killed them but it's their fault".
They got to get the flaks to write up some new stories. They've got to quit killing the women, children and old people, because it's hard to pass them off as "criminal gang members".
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