Iraqi Nightmare

State of emergency declared in Basra

2 Iraqi Women Killed by Coalition Troops

US probe finds Haditha victims were shot: report

Massacre at Haditha: how the occupation turned an Iraqi town into hell

The Iraqi town of Haditha will now forever be linked with the blood and terror of the US occupation. For many it will be Iraq’s equivalent of Vietnam’s My Lai, a symbol of the violence of imperialism.

Before the war the sleepy town of 70,000 on the banks of the River Euphrates was known mainly for its date growing.

Now it is known for a massacre. And that massacre has underlined the much wider process of invasion, and the urgent necessity for every one of the US and British troops to leave now.

At 7.15am on 19 November 2005, a roadside bomb in Haditha killed a 20 year old US Marine, Miguel Terrazas.

A statement released by the US department of defence said 24 civilians were also killed in the blast.

Witnesses described how US soldiers had dragged five men from a taxi and executed them. Soldiers belonging to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division, then moved from one house to another, seizing the families and killing them as they lay helpless.

This was not just a frenzied reaction. It took the Marines five hours to commit their crimes.

This illegal war just gets darker and darker, the more and the US led coalition of the ever dwindling stays in Iraq they begin to dehumanise their Iraqi opponents and then we end up with a masscre like Haditha.

This war is rotten to the core, led by the greedy murderous and insane Bush Junta and their PNAC friends.

The Insurgency has been in its 'last throes' for a very long time, and I've lost count of the number of corners turned.

The War Whores live in their own bubble of fear, unable to face up to the reality that their ammoral invasion of Iraq is a faliure, and a bloody one at that.

Bloodiest month: UK suffers largest post-war losses

In May, 11 Britons were killed in Iraq. These are the worst losses since the war ended, prompting more calls for a British withdrawal

It makes me ashamed that Britain is invovled in the Bush Junta's murderous plans, we need to leave now.