War crimes 3-31-2013

31, March 2013                      War crimes

A new report by the London Guardian and BBC provides shocking details of how our military armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. The chief architect of these horrific death squads was Colonel James Steel. A documentary  "James Steele: America’s Mystery Man in Iraq," exposes the role of Steele – a veteran of the dirty wars in El Salvador and  Nicaragua – played in training Iraqi death squads to trigger sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. The investigation was initiated by access to the War Logs released by WikiLeaks. They described how our tax dollars were used to set up torture centers to fight the insurgency. Prior to the US invasion Sunni and Shiites were closely inter-related by marriage and often referred to as “Sushis”. The War Logs incriminate General Petraeus and the highest echelons of the Bush Administration who approved the ‘Salvadorian model’ to resist the insurgency. Bradley Manning deserves credit for exposing the massive deceit that was perpetrated on the American people and the war crimes heaped on the Iraqi people. To finger point at other nation’s human rights abuses opens us to monumental hypocrisy. No one has been held accountable for these war crimes and tragically the whistleblowers like Bradley Manning are being punished for revealing these dark, sordid secrets. This is a travesty. God have mercy on our souls.