Via Air America's Majority Report Radio blog comes Tiny Revolution's excerpt of an October 8, 2004 speech by New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh. Hersh details a phone call he received from a soldier in Iraq. The soldier's platoon had hired over 30 Iraqi civilians to guard an agricultural area. After two weeks of working together, the civilian guards were well known and trusted by the US troops. Another platoon came in and executed all of the Iraqi guards for no reason, outraging the soldiers who had worked with them. When the platoon leader questioned the company captain, he was told: "No, you don't understand. That's a kill. We got thirty-six insurgents." [from Katieweb.com]
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