Analysis of Bucca Incident and Media Response

You mentioned Bucca, and I found that very interesting

because, you know, I was a career prosecutor.

I ended up, I was the head of

the criminal law division in the Pentagon responsible

for criminal prosecutions within the army worldwide.

And I got there because I was known as a very,

very stern prosecutor at major military installations.

And so I sort of have a way of

looking at crime scenes in a very rational way.

So I saw the videos that were sent out of Bucca,

and immediately they were different.

Now, you and I have seen massive slaughters in Syria

by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates,

you know, ISIS, all of these other names that they come up with.

They're all under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda.

And when you see a slaughter, a mass slaughter,

it is generally you have people who are brought together in a place

that's where they're beheaded or that's where they're gunned down or whatever.

This was interesting because in Bucca,

you, first of all,

the bodies didn't start appearing until four days after the Russians left.

The mayor of the city proclaimed, you know, glory, hallelujah,

the Russians have been driven out.

There was not a mention of any slaughter,

anything of that sort.

Then all of a sudden, four days after the Ukrainian

psychological operations troops entered the city,

dead people started appearing on the streets.

And they showed videos of, you know,

out the window where they're driving along,

and here would be a dead person.

Over there would be a dead person.

A hundred feet further, there was a dead person.

All of them right on the side of the street

with their hands zip-tied behind them,

just the same way that the Ukrainian soldiers zip-tie all of their prisoners.

And it was interesting because you look at the

armbands that were worn by these civilians who were laying dead there.

Now, the custom at the time,

if someone was a Ukrainian sympathizer, they would wear a blue armband.

If they were either a Russian sympathizer or simply just totally neutral,

they'd wear a white armband.

All of the armbands were white.

None of them were blue.

Why weren't Ukrainian sympathizers killed?

Why only Russian sympathizers?

Why would the Russians choose to kill Russian sympathizers as they're leaving town?

Now, the Russians had occupied Bukovka for over a month.

I don't know how long it was.

And if they had decided they were going to execute some people,

why not round them up, take them out in the woods,

slaughter them, bury them, and get rid of the evidence?

You and I have seen these things.

We've seen these things happen in Syria.

And I've watched similar things over a lifetime.

But that wasn't what happened.

Now,

if the Russians were going to do that,

why would they wait until they're leaving town to gun people down?

And why would they choose to lay them down like monuments along the road

as clear evidence that they had done it?

The whole thing was such a total transparent fraud

that it was just amazing that the mainstream,

the corporate media, journalists totally overlooked it

and assumed that, oh, well, this must have been Russians

because the Ukrainians told us it was Russians who did it.