DID BUSH WHITE HOUSE AUTHORIZE WANTON MURDER OF CIVILIANS IN IRAQ?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Today’s leak of an uncensored 2007 Iraq combat video showed troops operating without any regard for international law, rules of war and human decency. This “real” video does one thing, it proves the others we have been seeing for years to be either staged events or total fabrications. The rules of engagement observed in the leaked video tell the exact same story that the leaked photos did of our prison torture. If America believed it is legal to torture and call it “interrogation” then it is just as likely that our former Attorney General, advising Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and working closely with President Bush and Cheney had authorized equally illegal rules of engagement. The “real” rules, as demonstrated, seem to allow, not only the wanton killing of civilians. I am familiar with the region and with typical rules of engagment. There were a number of misrepresentations made, serious inconsistencies. Such inconsistencies under these circumsta