politics

Things don't change

John Pilger, filmmaker, journalist and antiwar activist, writes in the Mirror:
WE HAD a great day,” said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. “We killed a lot of people.”

He added: “We dropped a few civilians, but what do you do?” He said there were women standing near an Iraqi soldier, and one of them fell when he and other Marines opened fire. “I'm sorry,” said Sgt Schrumpf, “but the chick was in the way”.

Pilger recounts how he was told almost the same thing by a Marine sergeant in Vietnam after the shooting of a pregnant woman 30 years ago.

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