By THOMAS WATKINS 08.16.07, 10:47 PM ET
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the killings of two captured Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.
Head shaven and wearing a black suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, Jose Nazario, 27, answered procedural questions before U.S. Magistrate Judge Oswald Parada. Bail was set at $50,000.
"I would just like to say, I'm a United States Marine who fought honorably for this country and I'm innocent of these charges," Nazario said outside court.
Defense attorney Emery Ledger told The Associated Press before the hearing that Nazario was charged last week and will enter a not guilty plea.
Nazario faces 10 years in prison if convicted of voluntary manslaughter, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Behnke. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5....
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the killings of two captured Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.
Head shaven and wearing a black suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, Jose Nazario, 27, answered procedural questions before U.S. Magistrate Judge Oswald Parada. Bail was set at $50,000.
"I would just like to say, I'm a United States Marine who fought honorably for this country and I'm innocent of these charges," Nazario said outside court.
Defense attorney Emery Ledger told The Associated Press before the hearing that Nazario was charged last week and will enter a not guilty plea.
Nazario faces 10 years in prison if convicted of voluntary manslaughter, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Behnke. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5....
The propaganda is amazing from the USA media for the short lived memories they have. Hard to believe widespread killing by the military is encouraged and allowed, while so much suffering is witnessed in this country.
The region has to solve it's own problems.
Up to now Bush/Cheney have reigned in any fashion they wanted including a detainment facility at Gitmo where torture was a matter of experimentation.
The USA has nothing to offer Iraq except more exploitation of it's resources and more suffering for it's people.
The illegal war in Iraq isn't making the USA any safer, just the opposite. The region has to solve it's own problems which, they can do without our help or our treasury. Staying in Iraq means compromising national security for the USA.
The USA has become 'guns for hire' for mayors and government officials that can't find enough confidence among their own people to take up their own security.
With willful killing in towns left unsecure after the invasion is there no wonder there is and has been an insurgency.
First the American military has no post invasion strategy to secure Iraq which results in anarchy. The locals set up their own militias to cope with the lawlessness. Then the USA military calls the militias enemies of the Iraq government when they provide more protection than the Iraqi government could ever provide. So the Iraqi government now in charge of the USA military send in heavy artillary to destroy militias attempting to protect citizens. Then when the militias are either arrested or killed the Americans are left to secure the areas where the militias once secured the area. When that occurs, because the militias were killed or jailed, the communities turn on the Americans to rid them of their neighborhoods so it doesn't happen again. While the Americans are now saying, "You all need to come up with enough loyal men to the Iraqi Central Government to protect yourselves as we won't allow anyone without loyalities to the Prime Minister into the NEW police and military of which we supply official uniforms."
And the chaos goes on and on and on and on...
Now, The New York Times wants the American people to continue to be 'the guns' for the nation building in An Albar while all those that were once securing the area are dead or in prison, because the USA never had a post war invasion strategy .
NO MORE, USA tampering with authority in Iraq, because Iraq is not going to remain a sovereign nation as it is today. It is dividing into provincial governments according to the Iraqi Constitution. It is simply a matter of time before all that has occurred to date won't matter anyway.
The ethnicity of An Albar is interesting and is portrayed as a neglected province by the Iraq government. The Shi'ite leadership is being marginalized by the author to it's bigotry against Sunnis. By blaming the Shi'ites for failure to stabilize An Albar to the 'specifications' of perfection demanded within this article, it lends bigotry to Shi'ites. It is well known the Shi'ites and the Kurds are the people with their backs against the wall because the Sunnis have invited al Qaeda to participate in ethnic/sectarian killings of the Kurds and Shia as well as attacks against the American forces. There is a real push to promote the 'good Sunnis' against the 'bad Shi'ites' in this article. Why do I believe an attack against Iran is in here somewhere? Must be my imagination.
The Sunnis aren't even represented in the Iraqi Central Government anymore. They don't want it. They want to be their own province and should have it.
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WriterBAGHDAD Aug 16, 2007 (AP)
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The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
The political pact came amid a grim backdrop: more bodies being pulled from the rubble of the most deadly suicide bombing assault of the war. The Interior Ministry spokesman set the death toll in northwestern Iraq to at least 400 from Tuesday's attacks against a small religious sect. Earlier, some authorities outside the government said at least 500 people died....
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The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
The political pact came amid a grim backdrop: more bodies being pulled from the rubble of the most deadly suicide bombing assault of the war. The Interior Ministry spokesman set the death toll in northwestern Iraq to at least 400 from Tuesday's attacks against a small religious sect. Earlier, some authorities outside the government said at least 500 people died....
In all honesty, it's the Kurds and Shi'ites that are the most aggrieved by the circumstances they face now in Iraq. Each ethnicity was victimized by Saddam. The USA has not helped in that they were unable to secure the nation post invasion and to that end, the Sunnis allowed and encouraged al Qaeda's presence.
It's wrong to promote further the Iraq war. It's not conducted well. People continue to suffer and die. Why continue to fail the Iraqi people when neighboring countries can do better? Sometimes discretion is the best part of valor in realizing when one has failed and accommodate a solution whereby people are given relief rather than continued failures. It's time the USA seek better solutions for Iraq.
