Have you seen the video footage of US soldiers shooting and killing unarmed civilians in a Baghdad suburb? Then a van comes and two unarmed men try to take away a wounded man (who turned out to be a driver working for Reuters news agency), and the US soldiers (after getting permission from their boss) shoot and kill them too.
The soldiers talk like people playing a video game.
There is a short article on Salon about it which I wanted to link to here because it talks about how the event itself isn't rare - it's the fact that we can watch it on video, online. This made me think of Ian Tomlinson again. Is there any point being able to film these crimes and post them for millions to see online if it doesn't seem to change anything? I think there is. Let's see.
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