USA MUST ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY
The reaction of the State Department to the publication of the video footage taken of US marines brutalising Iraqi prisoners seems very tepid: instead of being contrite and apoegetic for the events caught on tape, the state department deplored the fact that the timing of this particular publication is inconvienient. When the cartoon denigrating the Propher were published it was seen as a sign of the freedom of the press. Now the State Deparment says that the footage should not be published.
Morer seriously, the American occupation of Iraq has now stands exposed as one of the most brutal and dehumanising occupations in the modern world. The shocking part is no actioon is being taken against those who were behind such systematic abuse. Punishing lower level staff for systematic abuse is like holding just the camp commandant and not German political leadership responsible for "war crimes". International law clearly recognises crimes against peace, which Bush and the Bushmen comitted whebn they invaded Iraq without reason, and now we have war crimes on a scale that the world has not seen for a long long time.
There is also the fact that the assault on Fallujah two years back caused large scale destruction of life.