We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us…. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
Photo: The identity cards of fourteen-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi (center), raped and murdered in her home in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, 12 March 2003; also her mother Fakhriya Taha Muheisin al-Janabi (L) and father Qasim Hamza Rasheed al-Janabi (R), both murdered (along with Abeer's five-year-old sister, Hadel) in the same incident. (Reuters/Handout)
Related Link: "Killing people is like squashing an ant"
A former US soldier accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl compared killing people in Iraq to "squashing an ant," in an interview with a reporter about a month before the attack...."I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience," Green was quoted as saying. "And then I did it, and I was like, 'All right, whatever.' "I shot a guy who wouldn't stop when we were out at a traffic checkpoint and it was like nothing," Green was quoted as saying. "Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant."
"I mean, you kill somebody and it's like, 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'"