Bloodthirsty US General Mattis promoted

This video about the Iraq war says about itself:

“Throw some candy in the schoolyard.
Watch the children gather round.
Lock a belt in your M16.
Mow them little bastards down.”
— U.S. Marine marching chant

“It’s a lot of fun to fight. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot people. I’ll be right upfront with you, I like brawling.”
— Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, 2/3/05

“The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy. I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin’ Iraqi. No, I won’t get hold of one. I’ll just kill him.”
— Corp. Ryan Dupre, U.S. Marines, 3/30/03

By Barry Grey in the USA:

General who says “It’s fun to kill people” picked to oversee US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq

12 July 2010

Last week, the Obama administration named Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to replace Gen. David Petraeus as chief of US Central Command, giving the Marine officer overall command of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and across the Middle East and Central Asia.

The elevation of Mattis is further confirmation that last month’s firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and appointment of Petraeus to take command of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan signaled a major escalation of US military violence against the Afghan people. Mattis, also known, according to Wikipedia, as “Chaos,” “Warrior Monk” and “Mad Dog Mattis,” is notorious inside and outside of the military for his bloodlust and enthusiasm for killing.

He has a long record leading combat operations in US wars of aggression in the Middle East and Central Asia. He served as a lieutenant colonel in Operation Desert Storm (the US invasion of Iraq in 1991), commanded the first ground troops that went into southern Afghanistan after the 2001 US invasion of that country, and led Marines in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In April of 2004 he headed up the first US assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah and helped plan the siege later that year that destroyed the city and killed thousands of its residents.

In February of 2005, at a public forum in San Diego, Mattis said that “it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot” Afghans. He continued: “Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right upfront with you, I like brawling.” A bit later he spoke of the “emotional … satisfaction you may get from really whacking somebody.”

Mattis received an official rebuke for his comments. They were, however, not an aberration. In his 2006 book Fiasco: The American military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas Ricks writes that one of the rules the Marine commander gave his troops to live by was, “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

In a speech to Task Force Ripper during Desert Storm, he reportedly said, ‘It’s the mission of every Marine in the battalion to send one dead Iraqi home to Mama.”

Cancer, leukaemia and infant mortality are all increasing in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, which saw fierce fighting between US forces and Sunni insurgents, a new survey says: here.

Top anti-war Democrat: Afghanistan war could ‘destroy’ Obama’s presidency: here.

RAWA.org: “US building secret bases in Afghanistan to attack Russia”: here.

Tom asks: could success in Afghanistan prove worse for Americans than failure? Here.

Revealed: How strategy to train Afghan forces is in deep trouble: here.

Andrew Napolitano: Bush and Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for Torturing, for Spying: here. And here.

NV-Sen: Sharron Angle admits waterboarding is torture: here.