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"Haditha was shockingly different - a feral place where the marines hardly washed; a number had abandoned the official living quarters to set up separate encampments with signs ordering outsiders to keep out; and a daily routine punctured by the emergency alarm of the dam itself with its antiquated and crumbling machinery."
The above description of the situation around Haditha Dam a couple months after the Haditha Massacre, closes with the following lines, which remind us what war ultimately is:
"The troops he [a civilian engineer] was quartered with terrified him, so much so that he would not let his name be quoted for fear of reprisal."
"He was keeping a secret dossier of breaches he said he had witnessed, or learned of. He planned to present it to the authorities when he returned to the US."
"Marines are good at killing," he said. "Nothing else. They like it."
From The Telegraph in London.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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