Fallujah Residents Report US Forces Engaged in Collective Punishment: "Three families of refugees from the besieged city of Fallujah who are seeking refuge in the Al-Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad, described the conditions in the embattled city of Fallujah as 'a horrible disaster.' A man called Khaled Abu Mujahed, speaking from Fallujah on behalf of the Islamic Party, stated that while some relief supplies are getting inside the city, a great number of families remain trapped in their homes, and the stench of dead bodies has become overpowering.
Iraqi refugees from Fallujah hold up banners as they protest in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, against US Army forces, Wednesday, April 21, 2004. Many Iraqi families left Fallujah in the past ten days and the US military only allowed about ten families to return Wednesday, turning hundreds of people away at a checkpoint. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)"

Collective punishment is a war crime, prohibited under the Geneva Convention. For the US military to be holding an entire city hostage like this is an abomination, and totally undermines any claim that we're there to bring freedom to the Iraqi people.
The siege of Fallujah shows the reality. We're there to subjugate them, and kill them if they don't surrendur. We're there to take their wealth, build military bases so we can dominate the surrounding countries, and hand over Iraqi economy to US corporations.
This week the administration told Congress that we won't be handing power to the Iraqi's in June. The US Ambassador will be viceroy. The US military will be in power. The new Iraqi administration will be a puppet.
It's all just as Osama Bin Laden foretold. The US will invade and occupy an arab oil state. Which makes Bush even more of an idiot than i believed possible. He's the best recruiting tool for terrorists against the US.
- posted by geoff @ #