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[BigBlackEquus]

Is this a part of the reason why some people are so desperate for Bush to pull out and admit defeat now? Citizens turning in insurgents?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178273,00.html

[bucheon bum]

nice leap of logic there.

Ever seen the movie Traffic? Know much about the war on drugs?

[On the other hand]

[EFLtrainer]

[Butterfly]

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[igotthisguitar]

Col. Ted Westhusing suicide or Murdered?
Nov 27 2005

The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq.
The Army closed its case. But the questions surrounding Westhusing's death continue.

"He was sick of money-grubbing contractors," the official recounted. Westhusing said that "he had not come over to Iraq for this."
Westhusing's family and friends are troubled that he died at Camp Dublin, where he was without a bodyguard, surrounded by the same contractors he suspected of wrongdoing. They wonder why the manager who discovered Westhusing's body and picked up his weapon was not tested for gunpowder residue.

A Journey That Ended in Anguish
By T. Christian Miller
The Los Angeles Times

Sunday 27 November 2005

Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions. "War is the hardest place to make moral judgments." Washington - One hot, dusty day in June, Col. Ted Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at a military base near the Baghdad airport, a single gunshot wound to the head.

The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq.

The Army closed its case. But the questions surrounding Westhusing's death continue.

Westhusing, 44, was no ordinary officer. He was one of the Army's leading scholars of military ethics, a full professor at West Point who volunteered to serve in Iraq to be able to better teach his students. He had a doctorate in philosophy; his dissertation was an extended meditation on the meaning of honor.

So it was only natural that Westhusing acted when he learned of possible corruption by U.S. contractors in Iraq. A few weeks before he died, Westhusing received an anonymous complaint that a private security company he oversaw had cheated the U.S. government and committed human rights violations. Westhusing confronted the contractor and reported the concerns to superiors, who launched an investigation.

In e-mails to his family, Westhusing seemed especially upset by one conclusion he had reached: that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by the military.

His death stunned all who knew him. Colleagues and commanders wondered whether they had missed signs of depression. He had been losing weight and not sleeping well.

But only a day before his death, Westhusing won praise from a senior officer for his progress in training Iraqi police.

http://www.blackopradio.com/westhusing.html

[igotthisguitar]

Family: Ala. Marine Fatally Shot in Sleep
Tue Dec 20, 4:58 PM ET

CULLMAN, Ala. - A Marine in Iraq was shot in the back of the head and killed while sleeping in his barracks, his family said it was told by the military. The Pentagon said only that the Marine died of a "non-hostile" gunshot wound

The mother of Cpl. Adam R. Fales, 21, of Cullman, said she was frustrated in her attempts to learn more about the circumstances of Friday's shooting in Fallujah, and to bring his body home soon.

"The Marines came out to my house Saturday morning and told me my son was shot in the back of his head in his secure barracks," Glenda Fales said Tuesday in a telephone interview. "They said it was under investigation and they won't tell us anything else. We don't know if it was accidental or if somebody shot him on purpose."

The Defense Department confirmed that the Marine from Alabama was killed by a "non-hostile" gunshot in Iraq, but said the death remained under investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/marine_killed;_ylt=Avudg37lBsChepIc3NX0n4ADW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl