Rep. Duncan D. Hunter said his military unit “killed probably hundreds of civilians” in Iraq, the California Republican’s latest eyebrow-raising comments since being charged last year with spending campaign funds on personal expenses. “So, I was an artillery officer, and we fired hundreds of rounds into Fallujah, killed probably hundreds of civilians — if not scores, if not hundreds of civilians. Probably killed women and children, if there were any left in the city when we invaded. Prosecutors say Gallagher stabbed an injured Islamic State fighter and then posed with the teenage militant’s corpse. In the “Zero Blog Thirty” interview, Hunter also argued that the Islamic State fighter “was going to die anyway,” again prompting pushback from Mannion.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2019 22:13 UTC