Haditha

 

Jeffrey St. Clair>:

 

+ This week, twenty years after justifying Bush’s invasion of Iraq, the New Yorker published a new account of the massacre of 26 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in Haditha. The story is built on tens of thousands of documents finally unearthed from the Pentagon on the mass killings, including photos of women and children gunned to death inside their homes. Maybe 20 years from now, the New Yorker will feel it’s safe to publish photos of the atrocities committed by the US-funded IDF against Palestinian families inside their homes and tents in Gaza…

 

+ 12 years ago The Atlantic, which is now busy rationalizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the crushing of anti-genocide protests on campuses in the US, published a piece defending the Marines who slaughtered 26 Iraqi civilians in Haditha.