Stormtroopers Secure Emperors State Visit

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TIRANA (Reuters) – An Albanian government decree allowing U.S. Marines to be the only armed corps guarding President George W. Bush on a visit next week has been seen by some in Albania as an insult to their security forces. Albania has been looking forward to Bush’s visit on June 10, the first by a U.S. president. He will be staying for seven hours as part of a regional tour.

As part of preparations, parliament on Thursday approved an act that allows more than 500 combat-ready U.S. troops entry into the country, and sanctions their use of “force proportionate to any possible threat.”

This is effectively a temporary 7 hour occupation of a country, so I guess they are getting off lightly.

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Haditha, The Occupiers Tale

“It was unfortunate. We’re sorry about this but this is what happens when terrorists attack us and hide in houses,” Frank recalled his superiors saying. “It’s an unfortunate thing that happens when you let terrorists use your house to attack our troops.”

When Wuterich’s team finished, 19 people were dead in or near the houses and another five men were killed near the car they were riding in.

Frank, who was sent to the scene hours after the killings to move the bodies, said two women and six children were found in the bedroom at the end of a hallway, all but one on the bed. All the children were under age 15, he said. 

In other words we will kill everyone in a house that we suspect a ‘terrorist’ (as determined by us) has been. That is a threat, it is also a war crime. The bottom line of this case is this- if what they did was not a crime then the US is saying to countries it occupies that we will kill anyone with impunity at the same time we expect you to be thankful to us for our presence. So ask yourself, would you accept that deal? Or would you fight to the death to expel the invaders?

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