Writes Kitty Carr: "Not just bad language in this YouTube, but American soldiers taunting and making fun of innocent little children. When I saw a child chasing a truck of our selfless Marines for a bottle of water – water! – while the Marines were laughing, it reminded me of the two saddest words in the Holy Bible: 'I thirst.'
"And let's not forget the 'isolated incident' of Abu Ghraib. Even though it was Jerry Falwell who pointed fingers at the ACLU for their 'part' in causing 9/11, it was the ACLU who finally got the REST of the pictures – pictures of unspeakable horror and death. Oh, but according to Supreme Court Justice Scalia, an object under the fingernail of a terrorist is OK as long as the information gleaned from this saves the lives of a million Americans. Yes! That's why Abu Ghraib had to happen! But why were the American soldiers smiling and laughing in every picture? Why were these 'men' having such a good time forcing detainees to commit sexual acts? How many people were saved by the soldiers' rollicking good time?
"This is what Douglas MacArthur wrote in Reminiscences, published in 1964: 'Yet history clearly showed that no modern military occupation of a conquered nation had been a success. At first hand, I had seen what I thought were basic and fundamental weaknesses in prior forms of military occupations: the substitution of civil by military authority; the loss of self-respect and self-confidence by the people; the constantly growing ascendancy of centralized dictatorial power instead of a localized and representative system; the lowering of the spiritual and moral tone of a population controlled by foreign bayonets; the inevitable deterioration in the occupying forces themselves as the disease of power infiltrated their ranks and bred a sort of race superiority. If any occupation lasts too long, or is not carefully watched from the start, one party becomes slaves and the other masters. History teaches, too, that almost every military occupation breeds new wars of the future.'
"Yes, I was for this 'war' at first. Did I actually believe the lies of the psychopathic Bush Administration, or did I want vengeance? I mostly wanted vengeance. After all, these people are not good people like we are. They are barely human. I am ashamed. WE are not the good people; God is not on 'our side.' We have murdered or caused the murder of about a million Iraqis, and the displacement of millions more, and we call it 'liberation.'"
