The war gets ugly
Powerful -- and disturbing reporting -- from a British journalist with the US Marines. "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."
This kind of contempt for the lives of Iraqi civilians is understandable, but inexcusable. If it becomes the rule, rather than the exception, the war will be a failure, whatever the outcome of the military campaign.
US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death [Sunday Times] #

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