[bilal]

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

The Logic of War Crimes in a Criminal War
By: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Brian Becker
June 2, 2006


In the U.S. media, Iraq is treated as a low-intensity war. When U.S. soldiers are killed their deaths are accompanied by a small article. The fact that well more than 100,000 Iraqis have died does not merit blazing headlines. Iraqi suffering is minimized or usually attributed to “terrorists.” Thus, the people of the United States are shielded from that which the Arab people know all too well about the criminal character of the war of aggression.

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

The mass media, always willing to exploit the emotional appeal of death and tragedy that occurs within the United States, can ignore or define the experiences of the people of Iraq as somehow less worthy, the death of Iraqi children as less agonizing, their lives less valuable.

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

The vehicles carrying expectant mothers to the hospital can thus become a threat because they must travel quickly, too quickly for the comfort of the occupying soldiers who are fearful of car bombs.

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

The logic of their political calculus was that U.S. public opinion would turn against the war directly as a result of a large number of U.S. casualties. This thought took them to the next murderous conclusion: if civilians pose even a remote risk to U.S. soldiers it is better to shoot the civilians first and ask questions later. Dead Korean or Vietnamese or Iraqi civilians will not be as politically damaging back home as dead American soldiers.

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

There is one more side to the logic of war crimes. If the civilian population is sympathetic to the resistance fighters it is necessary to terrorize the civilians as punishment for providing aid or shelter to a guerrilla army.

Quote: (Originally Posted by RalphyS)

it really is sad...that when we talk about the same issues against germans and the french during WORLD WAR.....the acceptance come realy easily but not against US....i guess Media do make a lot of difference