Glenn – No Beauty In The Beast – Israel Without Her Mascara

20IN THEIR OWN WORDSexactly what we are, foreign occupiers of their country who have killed tens of thousands of civilians includingthousands of women and children in so-called ‘collateral damage.’ We all saw the video on NBC of the mosqueshootings of wounded and I can tell you it is a lot worse than that. We often killed the helpless, the wounded andmany civilians. My own squad did. I did. And I will do whatever I am ordered to do, but it doesn’t stop me from notliking it. I didn’t join the service to kill women and children! We do a lot worse than what you saw on the video.In Fallujah when we come to an apartment building, we shout for the people to come out. Most times because of thelack of translators we couldn’t even say to come out in Arabic, and these people don’t know what an English “comeout” sounds like anymore than you reading this would know it if I said it in Arabic. A lot of people are too afraid tocome out. But after we would warn them, we would go in. You know how? We would riddle the building and everywindow with high-caliber, armor-piercing machine gun fire, then often we would throw in a grenade for goodmeasure. If any civilians were in there they ended up either dead or wounded. I can tell you that over the duration ofa week I myself saw at least a hundred bodies in the burned out and attacked apartments, and I only saw a little sliverof Fallujah. And what did we do with the wounded? I’ll tell you. We did nothing. We just moved on to the nextbuilding. We were fighters, not medics, but there were no medics behind us. I believe the thinking is that it is betterfor the wounded enemy to die so they can’t fight us anymore. It is true that we have to kill civilians if we are tosurvive because we can’t know who the enemy is, but how in the world can our leaders put us in this situation? If ittakes the killing tens of thousands of civilians for us to be here, for God’s sake we shouldn’t be here! And if we haveto kill innocent civilians and destroy tens of thousands of people’s homes, then how can we say we are fighting tobring them freedom? Tell that to the grieving mother and father I saw who at their feet lay their little girl with herhead half shot off.”“None of us can figure out why we are really here. The people here on the streets have a name for us, they call us theJews! At first I never understood this, but when I found out how Israeli agents in the American government likePerle and Wolfowitz were behind the war, all of it began to fall into place. It was never a war for America, it is onewhere thousands of Americans are being killed or maimed for life for the benefit of Israel, not America. We want toget back to our families, not because we are afraid, but because we realize that this war is the craziest war Americahas ever fought, an unnecessary war that has only caused more human suffering, both for us Americans here doingour duty and for the innocent here who suffer and hate us with all their heart. And as for terrorists, we are making10 new ones for every one we kill.”—Letter from an American serviceman in Iraq——————————————————————————————————————————————“The 16 year old girl stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When thesoldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters. She watched thesoldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything. They beat her two sisters, thenshot them in the head. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shothim dead.”— Dahr Jamail, an American reporter for Inter Press Service covering the war in Iraq.”Five of us were trapped together in our house in Falluja when the siege began. On 9 November American marinescame to our house. My father went to the door to meet them. We were not fighters, and so we thought we had nothingto fear. I ran into the kitchen to put on my veil, since men were going to enter our house and it would be wrong forthem to see me with my hair uncovered. This saved my life, for as my father and neighbor approached the door, theAmericans opened fire on them. They died instantly. My 13-year-old brother and I hid in the kitchen behind thefridge. The soldiers came into the house and caught my older sister. They beat her and then shot her, but they did notsee me. Soon they left, but not before they had destroyed our furniture and stolen the money from my father’spocket.”— Hudda Fawzi Salam Issawi, an Iraqi girl from the Julan district of Falluja testifying as to what happened to herfamily by the Americans.