Kill, Kill, Kill

While you were sleeping, a huge and deadly earthquake rocked Pakistan, collapsing buildings in Islamabad.  The death toll is not yet determined.  

I asked God what this was all about and he said he was aiming at Osama and we should not worry about collateral damage.  He added, a bit sheepishly, that all those hurricanes were an attempt to hit Pat Robertson but he’s still having trouble with that nasty slice.

KUTV, Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, reports that a former U.S. Marine in Iraq alleges in a book just published in France that his battalion committed atrocities against Iraqi civilians during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, including shooting unarmed protesters.  Jimmy Massey, a staff sergeant who was in the Marines for 12 years and served three months in Iraq before being honorably discharged with post-traumatic stress syndrome, details the allegations in his book, Kill! Kill! Kill!

Maj. Gabrielle Chapin, a spokeswoman at Marine Corps headquarters in the Pentagon, said the Marines are committed to investigating all allegations of violations of “law of war or rules of engagement.” “Mr. Massey made allegations of genocide by members of his command, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, resulting in an investigation,” she said. The investigation was completed in June 2004, “and these allegations were found to be unsubstantiated in regards to law or rules of engagement violations,” Chapin said.

That of course is quite different from saying it did not happen.

Someone my age can’t help but recall the My Lai 4 massacre of Vietnamese women, children and old people – which although it did happen, has been made not to have happened as time went by.  I’m sure that soon, this incident will not have happened and Massey will have been seen with Jane Fonda if not also Leon Trotsky.