Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

NY TIMES:

Four soldiers from an Army combat unit that killed three Iraqi men in a raid in May testified Wednesday that they had received orders from superior officers to kill all the military-age men they encountered.

The soldiers gave their accounts at a military hearing here to determine if four colleagues should face courts-martial on charges that they carried out a plan to murder the three Iraqis, whom they had seized after an assault on what they were told was an insurgent stronghold northwest of Baghdad.

Their testimony gave credence to statements from two defendants that an officer had told their platoon to “kill all military-age males” in the assault, regardless of any threat they posed. ... [*]

Face it, Iraq is practically a free fire zone, where the rules of engagement include killing the wounded as has been numerously documented, shooting into cars, and occaisionally mowing down all military age men, and even whole families. Kinda makes you proud, eh - or does it?