Tal Afar; war crimes in Bush’s dystopia by Mike Whitney

Bush says: “The savagery of the terrorists is hard for Americans to imagine. They enforced their rule through fear and intimidation . . . In one grim incident; the terrorists kidnapped a young boy from the hospital and killed him.” (There’s no record of this incident.) “And then they booby-trapped his body; he was blown up. (Never happened.) “These weren’t random acts of violence; these were deliberate and highly-organized attempts to maintain control through intimidation. In Tal Afar, the terrorists had schools for kidnapping and beheading.” (Schools for beheading?) “And they sent a clear message to the citizens of the city: Anyone who opposes their reign of terror will be murdered.” (Absurd.)