MURDER, INC.
Truth In The Crosshairs: Wikileaks' Video Challenges Our "Managed Perceptions" Of War
By Elizabeth C. TO THOSE UNSCHOOLED IN THE EUPHEMISMS OF WAR, there is no dispute that the Iraqi men gunned down by Crazyhorse One-Eight of the U.S. Military were murdered.
Armed with no weapons visible at least to the untrained eye, and paying no attention to an Apache helicopter flying overhead, the men are relaxed as they gather on a clear Bagdad day in an area where there had been exchanges between the U.S. military and Iraqi insurgents earlier in the day. Two Reuters journalists, one carrying a long-lensed camera, walks among them.
Up in the sky, two military men saw something entirely different: Armed enemy combatants. They report to commanding officers seeing "five to six individuals with AK-47s" and request permission to "engage." Permission granted.
"Just fuckin', once you get on 'em, just open 'em up,'' says one American fighter. Bullets from a 30 millimeter cannon fire rip through the air. Within minutes, the human targets are dead. "Oh yeah, look at them dead bastards," says the shooter. One of the injured tries to drag himself away. Minutes later, a van pulls up, a man gets out and tries to help the injured man inside.
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