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Octubre 15, 2004
Una llamada desde Irak
Seymour Hersh es el enemigo público número uno (periodístico) de la Administración de Bush. Hace unos días, pronunció una conferencia en la universidad de Berkeley, donde se habló, sobre todo, de la matanza de My Lai, en Vietnam, y las torturas de Abú Ghraib.
Hersh puso los pelos de punta al auditorio al contar una llamada telefónica que recibió de un teniente destinado en Irak:
In the evening's most emotional moment, Hersh talked about a call he had gotten from a first lieutenant in charge of a unit stationed halfway between Baghdad and the Syrian border. His group was bivouacking outside of town in an agricultural area, and had hired 30 or so Iraqis to guard a local granary. A few weeks passed. They got to know the men they hired, and to like them. Then orders came down from Baghdad that the village would be "cleared." Another platoon from the soldier's company came and executed the Iraqi granary guards. All of them.
"He said they just shot them one by one. And his people, and he, and the villagers of course, went nuts," Hersh said quietly. "He was hysterical, totally hysterical. He went to the company captain, who said, 'No, you don't understand, that's a kill. We got 36 insurgents. Don't you read those stories when the Americans say we had a combat maneuver and 15 insurgents were killed?'
"It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts," Hersh continued. "You know what I told him? I said, 'Fella, you blamed the captain, he knows that you think he committed murder, your troops know that their fellow soldiers committed murder. Shut up. Complete your tour. Just shut up! You're going to get a bullet in the back.' And that's where we are in this war."
¿Cuánto tarda un Ejército en corromperse cuando se convierte en una fuerza de ocupación?
Posted by Iñigo at Octubre 15, 2004 01:08 PM
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Comments
viendo la judeofobia que destila tu blog no comprendo como no lo has titulado guerra eterna al judío en oriente medio... o algo parecido. lamentable
Posted by: Anonymous at Octubre 15, 2004 03:32 PM
Pero qué judeofobia?Joer como desbarra el personal.
Posted by: Jartita at Octubre 16, 2004 06:07 PM
Tiene gracia que hables de judeofobia cuando justo a tu derecha tienes paginas de periodicos y organizaciones judias y el responsable del articulo de arriba (seymour Hersh) es de origen judio.
Posted by: Anonymous at Octubre 17, 2004 01:16 PM
judeofobia?A ver si no va a ser verdad q a la escolar palestina le metieron 20 balazos y despues le dieron dos tiros de gracia!SaludosElbier
Posted by: Anonymous at Octubre 18, 2004 01:36 AM