{"id":1430,"date":"2003-03-31T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2008-01-08T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:37:36","slug":"the-iraqis-are-sick-people-and-we-are-the-chemotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/31\/18\/02\/the-iraqis-are-sick-people-and-we-are-the-chemotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Did you see all that?” he a<\/a>sked, his eyes filled with tears. “Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice.” Martin’s distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. “The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy,” said Corporal Ryan Dupre. “I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin’ Iraqi. No, I won’t get hold of one. I’ll just kill him.” … “I was shooting down a street when suddenly a woman came out and casually began to cross the street with a child no older than 10,” said Gunnery Sergeant John Merriman, another Gulf war veteran. “At first I froze on seeing the civilian woman. She then crossed back again with the child and went behind a wall. Within less than a minute a guy with an RPG came out and fired at us from behind the same wall. This happened a second time so I thought, ‘Okay, I get it. Let her come out again’. She did and this time I took her out with my M-16.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Neither side is going to come out of Nasiriya<\/a> with clean hands.
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After suffering heavy losses in the southern city of Nassiriya, US marines were ordered to fire at any vehicle which drove at American positions, Sunday Times reporter Mark Franchetti reported. He described how one night “we listened a dozen times as the machine guns opened fire, cutting through cars and trucks like paper”. Next morning he said he saw 15 vehicles, including a mini-van and two lorries, riddled with bullet holes. He said he counted 12 dead civilians lying in the road or in nearby ditches.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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