From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 07:37:05 MDT
<<Sergeant First Class John Meadows summed up the prevailing attitude
amongst his colleagues telling the Evening Standard that Iraqi fighters
were dressed in civilian clothes.
"You can't distinguish between who's trying to kill you and who's not,"
he said.
"Like, the only way to get through s*** like that was to concentrate on
getting through it by killing as many people as you can, people you know
are trying to kill you. Killing them first and getting home."
And in an admission that directly contrasts with the line coming out
from the Pentagon's spin doctors Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson
added: "There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were
not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger.
"It was up close and personal the whole time, there wasn't a big
distance. If they were there, they were enemy, whether in uniform or
not. Some were, some weren't."
Describing the scene during combat Richardson admitted shooting injured
soldiers and leaving them to die.
He said: "S***, I didn't help any of them. I wouldn't help the f******.
There were some you let die. And there were some you double- tapped."
Making a shooting sign with his hand he went on: "Once you'd reached the
objective, and once you'd shot them and you're moving through, anything
there, you shoot again. You didn't want any prisoners of war. You hate
them so bad while you're fighting, and you're so terrified, you can't
really convey the feeling, but you don't want them to live."
And despite there being no link between Iraq and the September 11
attacks Richardson admitted that it gave him his motivation to fight Iraqis.
"There's a picture of the World Trade Centre hanging up by my bed and I
keep one in my flak jacket. Every time I feel sorry for these people I
look at that. I think, 'They hit us at home and, now, it's our turn.' I
don't want to say payback but, you know, it's pretty much payback.">>
http://messagenet.com/fw/f1189.html
a.k.a.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13087653_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-US-TROOPS-ADMIT-SHOOTING-IRAQI-CIVILIANS-name_page.html
-Mike
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