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Kitten Massacre
- Halliburton managers ordered the Marines to shoot stray kittens in the Green Zone.
- American staffers hid the kittens, but Halliburton hired Filipinos to hunt them down.
Year Zero
- The US occupation of Iraq mirrored the Khmer Rouge's 'Year Zero', destroying existing institutions.
- The first year was chaotic, with failures in basic services and rampant corruption.
The Sound of Freedom
- The Bush administration used "freedom" as a justification for its actions in Iraq.
- An American general even called the sound of helicopters "the sound of freedom."