IMPORTANTES DECLARACIONES DE McCORD, SOLDADO QUE DIO A CONOCER EL VIDEO DEl genocidio en Irak

Las Madres contra la guerra sabemos que las guerras destruyen el alma, corroen el ser. Denunciamos que McCord sea perseguido por decir lo que ocurre en Irak,que se acabe la guerra ya...
Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders "360 Rotational Fire" Against
Civilians in Iraq
June 17, 20100- "OpEd"- Ethan McCord, one of the soldiers
seen in the now-famous Wikileaks video in which two
American Apache helicopters fire upon a relaxed, unhurried
gaggle of men in Baghdad, has stated that he witnessed
numerous times the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Iraq
after IED attacks.
McCord is on of the soldiers seen helping two wounded
children after the attack. He has stepped forward with
open opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and written a letter of apology for his part in the
incident to the mother of the children, who has accepted
his apology. The mother's husband was killed in the attack
and found with his body shielding that of one of his children.
McCord said to reporter Bill Van Auken:
"We had a pretty gung-ho commander, who decided that
because we were getting hit by IEDs a lot, there would
be a new battalion SOP [standard operating procedure].
He goes, "If someone in your line gets hit with an IED,
360 rotational fire. You kill every motherf*cker on the street."
Myself and Josh and a lot of other soldiers were just sitting
there looking at each other like, "Are you kidding me?
You want us to kill women and children on the street?"
And you couldn't just disobey orders to shoot, because they
could just make your life hell in Iraq. So like with myself,
I would shoot up into the roof of a building instead of down on
the ground toward civilians. But I've seen it many times,
where people are just walking down the street and an IED
goes off and the troops open fire and kill them."
The deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime (Nanking 1937,
Hankow 1938, German Invasion of Poland 1939.) McCord is one
of a growing number of soldiers and support groups who have
renounced their actions in Iraq. He said:"I was the gung-ho
soldier.I thought I was going over there to do the greater good.
I thought my job over there was to protect the Iraqi people
and that this was a job with honor and courage and duty.
I was hit by an IED within two weeks of my being in Iraq.
And I didn't understand why people were throwing rocks at us,
why I was being shot at and why we're being blown up, when I
have it in my head that I was here to help these people."
McCord says the scenes captured in the Wikileaks video are
"an every-day occurrence in Iraq."
McCord echoes Major General Smedley D. Butler, the double
Medal of Honor winner who resigned his commission
and in 1935 became a critic of the nations wars,
traveling the country with his book and famous speech
"War is a Racket"
McCord said in the interview...