Iraqi Massacre

Reports are starting to turn up in the news of a massacre in Iraq. A group of US soldiers went on a rampage when one of their friends was killed by a roadside bomb. The Americans slaughtered between 24 and 30 people, including women and children. Another soldier who had to clean up the mess described how he was carrying a little girl in his arms who had been shot by our soldiers and her brains fell out onto his boots.

Now was can make ourselves feel better by excusing these murders as the work of a few people who simply lost their minds, but in the big picture, everything that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years; the two Iraq wars, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudia Arabia, the birth of Al Queda and 9/11, all were caused at least in part by our need for oil. If there was no oil, we would never be there. The Middle East would be ignored like Africa.

In the end it’s all so we can drive our cars, live our comfortable lives, and enjoy the greatest material abundance ever known to mankind. We all bear the guilt of these murders. I supported the war so I certainly include myself among the guilty. But either way, the killing of innocent people will go on until we find an alternative to oil.