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Opinion - Chris Floyd's Global Eye - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from St.Petersburg and Russia: "The reprisal in Fallujah is a perfect example. Late last month, a four-day U.S. military incursion there - totally ignored in the 'Coalition' press - left 18 Iraqis dead. Days later, four American mercenaries were killed and their bodies desecrated - a savage act by a small, angry crowd. Now, in retaliation for those four deaths, U.S. forces have killed more than 600 people, including many women and children. This isn't justice, this is collective punishment - disproportionate, indiscriminate, just as the Nazis practiced it during their 'liberation' of Europe.
With each new reprisal, each act of repression, each killing of an innocent person - even unintentionally - Bush is recruiting vast cadres of new fighters, and an even larger pool of passive support, for the armies of Islamic extremism. America - and the world - will be reaping this whirlwind for generations."