This is all just a screech from a partisan.

"I have no doubt it was an unlawful act of fire on the minibus."
So he was there and can attest to the fact that the troops with malice and fore thought opened fire on this van?

"He was fired on by American soldiers as a minibus carried wounded people away," Coroner Andrew Walker said at the conclusion of the inquest, which US soldiers declined to attend.


Why should the soldiers attend? Well, I can tell you; An inquest is an examination INTO the death, before hand there are no facts that would ascribe the action as unlawful, as the results of the Inquest have not been made yet, so in effect, this author is using a slimy semantic trick to paint the troops that had been there as guilty before the facts where in. Please.


"It was a despicable, deliberate, vengeful act," he added.

In his “opinion”, again, looking at this from afar, it may be easy to take this tack, but doesn’t mean he is right.

He says the unlawful killing verdict had been "inescapable" and has come about because "US forces appear to have allowed their soldiers to behave like trigger-happy cowboys."

Appear hummmm appear….yes that’s a “maybe” or “might have” , and as far as acting like trigger “happy cowboys”, that’s a judgment call, and unless he was there he cannot know. Just another article built on supposition.

He was then shot in the head by US troops after he had been picked up and put in an Iraqi minibus, the court heard.

Can we have a few more facts please? Like the range and circumstances at which the firing took place, getting hit in the head, and leaving these facts out is misleading, and you don’t have to be point blank to get hit in the head, if a number of troops opened fire from 50 yards he could have been hit in the head as well. Where are the facts regards the actual event? This is half baked. If you are going to write an article like this, add some meat to the potatoes. This describes nothing regards the actual event. In a word, sloppy and overly emotional.

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)