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January 25, 2014
And burn their bodies. New photographs have emerged of U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of dead Iraqis, posing for pictures with skeletons, and an “enemy” soldier’s remains being eaten by a dog. The Pentagon is said to be launching yet another probe into violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which outlines that it is a crime to mishandle remains. Warning: gruesome images. At least they burned these Iraqis after they were dead. The Germans, Japanese, and Vietnamese were not so lucky.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

