To The Hague With Them

Fallujah Iraq
33° 28' North; 48° 48' East

We've said it before and we'll say it again.

For the Rovians and their minions the Hague is their Hades.

And now, according to the New York Times, they know it.

"It was the second time in six months that a battle had raged in Falluja. In April, American troops were closing in on the city center when popular uprisings broke out in cities across Iraq. The outrage, fed by mostly unconfirmed reports of large civilian casualties, forced the Americans to withdraw.

American commanders regarded the reports as inflated, but it was impossible to determine independently how many civilians had been killed. The hospital was selected as an early target because the American military believed that it was the source of rumors about heavy casualties.

"It's a center of propaganda," a senior American officer said Sunday."

Again, they targetted a hospital, thereby depriving the civilians they are bombing of emergency care such that even more of them will be left in the rubble to die, and not because the hospital was a military target but rather because they are worried about what the doctors inside might tell the world about those very same casualties.

We're sorry but, assuming the quote is accurate (and given that the story was not written by Judith Miller we figure the odds it is are about 3:5) we are having great difficulty distinguishing the difference between this and the worst atrocities of the last century, including those perpetrated by the aggressors of World War II.

(thanks to Uncle $cam, posting on the AllSpinZone , for pointing us towards the NewPravda piece, and to Kate's StormWarning for the title)

Update: Thanks to Reader A.G. for the link to Marjorie Cohn's piece in which she lays out a detailed comparison of current US practices in Iraq and the biggest act(s) of fascism from the not so distant past.