Authored by Thomas Neuberger via Down With Tyranny blog,
Before…
…and after images of the van that came to pick up the bodies of eleven men shot to death by circling American helicopters in Iraq in 2007.
Both children in the van were wounded.
“Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids to a battle,” said one of the pilots.
“That’s right,” replies another. From the video Collateral Murder.
Below is a full video version of Collateral Murder, the 2007 war footage that was leaked in 2010 to Wikileaks by Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning. This version was posted to the Wikileaks YouTube channel with subtitles. It will only take about 15 minutes of your life to view it.
It’s brutal to watch, but I challenge you to do it anyway. It shows not just murder, but a special kind of murder — murder from the safety of the air, murder by men with heavy machine guns slowly circling their targets in helicopters like hunters with shotguns who walk the edges of a trout pond, shooting at will, waiting, walking, then shooting again, till all the fish are dead.
The film also shows war crimes that implicate the entire structure of the U.S. military, as everyone involved was acting under orders, seeking permission to fire, waiting, then getting it before once more blasting away. The publication of this video, plus all the Wikileaks publications that followed, comprise the whole reason everyone in the U.S. who matters, everyone with power, wants Julian Assange dead.
They also want him hated. Generating that hate is the process we’re watching today.
“Everyone” in this case includes every major newspaper that published and received awards for publishing Wikileaks material; all major U.S. televised media outlets; and all “respectable” U.S. politicians — including, of course, Hillary Clinton, who was rumored (though unverifiably) to have said, “Can’t we just drone this guy?”
Yes, Julian Assange the person can be a giant douche even to his supporters, as this exchange reported by Intercept writer Micah Lee attests. Nevertheless, it’s not for being a douche that the Establishment state wants him dead; that state breeds, harbors and honors douches everywhere in the world. They want him dead for publishing videos like these.
Please watch it. The footage shows not only murder, but bloodlust and conscienceless brutality, so much of it in fact that this became one of the main reasons Chelsea Manning leaked it in the first place. As she said at her court-martial: “The most alarming aspect of the video for me, was the seemingly delight of bloodlust they [the pilots] appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging with, and seemed to not value human life in referring to them as ‘dead bastards,’ and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers.”
The Wikileaks page for the video is here. A transcript is here.
This was done in our name, to “keep us safe.” This continues to be done every day that we and our allies are at “war” in the Middle East.
Bodies pile on bodies as this continues. The least we can do, literally the least, is to witness and acknowledge their deaths.
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the same bloodlust was manifest in the murders at Waco. i saw the photos, i heard the testimony and i was appalled. i sat thru both the civil and criminal trials. say what you will about manning’s sexual orientation, it took courage to do what he did. there are those who say that this is what the soldiers are trained to do…that is false. there are codes of conduct to be followed. ignore them and witness the descent into barbarity.
I don’t see what the problem is with the first shooting. Those people were in a free-fire zone for anybody carrying weapons. That’s how “area denial” works in a war. If you don’t understand that you don’t know the first thing about warfare.
If you don’t understand criminality when you see it then you don’t know the first thing about decency or justice. PS: “Area denial” is when your momma says she doesn’t feel like doing anal ..again.
“I don’t see what the problem is with the first shooting either!. “
In other words, “Shut up,” he explained. Come on back when you have something better than name-calling for an argument, dumbass.
And just think, we are still there, in Iraq,…” Bringing Them Democracy”(c)(TM).
Consider also that senior advisers to The Man From Queens want the U.S.S.A. to be “Bringing Them Democracy” to Iran. Soon.
How on Earth do you people think “it” is done? With gift cards to Ammazon or tickets to Dizney?
Free Julian Assange!
This is a sad condemnation of a truly magnificent America of yesteryear brought to its knees by the corruption and graft of its current and recent past ‘leaders’.
There is no doubt that these psychopaths have taken over the asylum and we are now all at risk. Our only defence is talking truth to power whenever and where ever we can and be united in our oppostion to the descent of USA into a ‘1984’ copy of a police state worse than the Soviet Union and Facist Germany before it.
Read, report and post all you can because words and the spirit of humanity can and will prevail in the face of this evil.
Behold: The only image of a “truly magnificent America of yesteryear” you will ever get to see:
I hope the Russians & Chinese capture each and every one of these Americunt “heroes” ..and then slit their throats s-l-o-w-l-y from ear to fucking ear.
“Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids to a battle,” said one of the pilots.
“Well, it’s their fault for working in such a tall building,” said one of the pilots.
The pilots didn’t know their were kids in the car till afterwards, DA.
Those people were qualified armed combatants or in company with armed combatants, therefore targets. If you want to make an argument against the war, do THAT. Tactics IN a war are a different matter.
Why Everyone Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead – A Pictorial Guide:
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It’s because viewing this:
Constitutes this:
For organizations such as this:
Which in turn would inevitably lead to this:
For perverted scum such as these:
It’s not a crime to fire upon armed combatants in a designated free-fire zone. If you don’t like the war, make THAT argument. Free-fire zones have been with us since warfare began.
Let’s see if you still opine the same when the Russians and Chinese designate your neighborhood as a “free-fire” zone.
“Make sure you get all the dead Amerikanskies in that pile behind us tovarich!”
If I’m carrying a weapon, I would expect it. You are just another Hate America First Marxist nut. Why don’t you go join Antifa, goofball?
What about firing on ambulances and rescue operations? I seem to remember something about that being said in the first several weeks of boot camp.
they were ‘armed? first i’ve heard of a camera = a gun
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/15/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-will-drop-charges-against-a/