Mercy killing or cold-blooded murder?

Mercy killing or cold-blooded murder?

The cowboy attitude of the invaders has not ceased since the invasion last year. The "shoot first, ask later" approach cost 7 more Iraqi civilian lives in August - one of them after he was "put to sleep" in order to put him out of his misery by the American troops.

First they put him in a miserable state and then they put him out of his misery! But I guess this too is in line with the justification for the invasion - to put the Iraqis out of their misery by removing their dictator! So I guess the US soldiers just carried out the US Government's policy that recently received the American public mandate to continue with its war crimes.