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A two-paragraph article on the last page of the front section of the Jan. 25 edition, attributed to wire reports, said that U.S. forces killed a farmer and his wife and wounded their daughter in an Iraqi government-approved operation against a wanted man and that the killings were in self-defense.

This information was effectively buried under layers of information about American financial woes and questionable Obama appointees.

Of course, our self-made problems are always more important than anything else in the world, including the problems we continually make for others.

But, really, after all the media chatter about the tough negotiations on the SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement), turnover of sovereignty, and Iraqi government jurisdiction over crimes committed by American forces, one might expect a higher priority for stories about these kinds of incidents continuing.

Will the New & Record print a follow-up or analysis of this incident and others like it? I wonder if our new administration will take notice and act on its campaign promises to get out of Iraq.

Atrocities and “collateral damage” (euphemism for excess of lethal force) will continue as long as we are an occupying foreign presence.

Jack Stone
McLeansville