Rapid gunfire, an all too common sound, erupts in the palm-lined streets of Ramadi. American forces positioned on a rooftop open fire on the street below, riddling a car with hot lead.

“Yeah bitch, get that fucker up,” a soldier says to a comrade preparing his AT-4 for action. “There’s a car,” continues the first soldier, “I lit that fucker up dude! Got thirty rounds in that bitch!” Camera man ducking for cover, the action continues. Two more cars speed up, one crashing into the first. A man, apparently unarmed, jumps from the crashed car and runs behind it, into a recessed corner in the buildings. He convulses as bullets pass through his body to the rhythm of a soldier’s assault rifle, eliciting a cry of “yeah bitch, you’re fucking done!” The bazooka-man fires, extinguishing any remnants of human life below. With no one left to kill, a cease-fire is called, complete with victorious laughter and celebratory screams of “wooo-hooo!”

“Look-it, we fucked those people all to shit down there,” says a soldier, expressing pride in his murderous crime. “I shot that dude in the white car right into the fucking building!” It’s enough war-time “glory” to make you sick. And it’s just another day of urban warfare in occupied Iraq.

Video Shows U.S. Soldiers Killing Unarmed Iraqi Civilians

I ask readers to please forward this video to mainstream media outlets and to those in government demanding that action be taken to investigate this apparent murder of innocent Iraqi civilians. We can not witness murder and not take action without being complicit in the crime! —Tom Feeley, ICH

On March 23rd, the online independent news outlet Information Clearing House broadcasted a video depicting the brutal slaying of Iraqi civilians by U.S. occupation forces. At the end of the video, a disclaimer appears, that claims that “No unarmed people were hurt during shooting.” This claim, however, is not evident in the footage itself. This is certainly not the first time such killings have taken place in Iraq, nor is it the first time the mainstream media has chosen to ignore such war crimes.

Where the mainstream media fails, we must succeed and persist. What they refuse to report, we must refuse to ignore. Join us in subverting the information war being waged on the people of the world by the corporate media conglomerates. Help us expose the crimes being committed against the people of Iraq by the occupation forces. Join the people of Iraq, and indeed the world, in their struggle for dignity and peace.

In a recent email, Tom Feeley of ICH wrote:

Yesterday I posted a video showing the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq.

It is apparent that the actions of these soldiers is a war crime and should not go unpunished. I ask readers to view the video and to pass it to others in the hope that mainstream media will do it’s job and bring it to the attention of a larger audience.

Please contact your government representatives and demand that they call for an investigation in to this brutal murder.

Join Information Clearing House, Guerrilla News Network, and a global network of independent media activists in bringing greater attention and accountability to this brutal and unacceptable crime. Please view the video, post it on your website, send it to your friends and family, and alert your local media outlets, demanding that they cover this war crime. Contact your representatives and demand an investigation into this crime, and the bringing of those responsible to justice. Better yet, get out on the streets and do something.

The people of America and the world need to know about this killing, and others like it. The people of the world have a right to know, and a responsibility to bring those accountable to justice, from the top of the chain of command to the bottom.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice contains a clause that legally obligates any solider or officer to disobey any order that is in violation of international law. Therefore, every U.S. armed forces personnel in Iraq has the legal duty to abandon the battlefield immediately. We do not support you in your complicity and cooperation with this illegal and imperial war. We do, however, support you in your legal and moral obligation to lay down your weapon and refuse to fight. We will support you when you refuse to be cannon fodder for empire.

One Big War Crime: Through Inaction, We Are All Complicit

America is more than four years into this illegal war. There have been more than 3,503 coalition deaths, and between 655,000 and 1,000,000 civilian Iraqi deaths. This industrial conversion of the living to the dead has cost the American people more than $412,450,947,641, with no sign of slowing down or stopping of its own volition any time soon.

How much longer will the American people, and the people of the world, tolerate this human tragedy? How much longer will we placate our consciences with ineffective and State-sanctioned dissent before we realize our true power, as workers, to shut this war machine down? How many more people will have to die?

The real question, however, might be, how long are we going to continue living in a way that requires the use of military force to acquire resources from other parts of the planet? So often the anti-war “movement” forgets that our very way of life and standard of living necessitate the use of military might to dominate others. This is not to justify war, but rather to denounce our own irresponsible and unsustainable way of living.

A shout out to U.S. troops in the Gulf: You are all being forced to fight an illegal war for the rich and powerful, a war that is opposed by the entire world. The moral thing for you to do is to disobey orders and do everything possible to keep yourself and your buddies safe so you can return home to America. The Chickenhawks in Washington think of you as cannon fodder, but we’d like to see all of you return home safely. An underground railroad and network of safe houses is waiting to welcome you into the global anti-capitalist resistance. Your skills are needed to help stop this death machine. Stay safe and Harass the Brass!

“After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg.“ —Anonymous

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_GNN contributor and blogger Nathan Coe is a guerrilla journalist and activist residing in the mountains of Occupied Aztlan, Turtle Island, where he has infiltrated the higher educational establishment, and is working on his Major in Humanities while subverting the intellectual status quo. He can be contacted at free_world_alliance@yahoo.com._