karbol
07-17-2007, 11:45 PM
please, check this link:
http://www.alternet .org/waroniraq/ 56761/?page= 1 (http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56761/?page=1)
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http://www.theage. com.au/news/ world/us- troops-tell- of-brutal- side-of-iraq- war/2007/ 07/15/1184438120 925.html (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-troops-tell-of-brutal-side-of-iraq-war/2007/07/15/1184438120925.html)
US troops tell of 'brutal side' of Iraq war
July 15, 2007 - 10:38AM
US war veterans' eye-witness accounts of brutal events in the war in Iraq
have been published in a US magazine.
The leftist weekly magazine The Nation has devoted its entire July 30
edition to the testimonies of 50 US troops shocked by the heavy civilian
casualty toll exacted by the US-led occupation of Iraq.
"Just the carnage, all the blown-up civilians, blown-up bodies that I saw
... I started thinking like, 'Why? What was this for?"' said army specialist
Jeff Englehart.
The weekly said it was the "the first time so many on-the-record, named
eyewitnesses from within the US military have been assembled in one place
to openly corroborate ... a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television
screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts".
Only the Los Angeles Times daily has written about The Nation's issue,
which on Saturday continued to go unreported by the country's main
television stations and newspapers.
The Nation said it spent seven months gathering the testimonials of 50
soldiers, from private to captain, praising their courage of openly telling
what they had gone through.
"Many of these veterans returned home deeply disturbed by the disparity
between the reality of the war and the way it is portrayed by the US
government and American media," said the magazine.
The witnesses stressed that not all troops took part in indiscriminate
killings, which were mostly "perpetrated by a minority".
The soldiers, "nevertheless described such acts as common and said they
often go unreported - and almost always go unpunished", the magazine added.
"The war the vets described is a dark and even depraved enterprise, one that
bears a powerful resemblance to other misguided and brutal colonial wars
and occupations, from the French occupation of Algeria to the American
war in Vietnam and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory," The
Nation said.
"I guess while I was there, the general attitude was, 'A dead Iraqi is just
another dead Iraqi'," said Englehart, 26, who served in Baquba, northeast
of Baghdad, for a year beginning in February 2004.
AFP.
http://www.alternet .org/waroniraq/ 56761/?page= 1 (http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56761/?page=1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~
http://www.theage. com.au/news/ world/us- troops-tell- of-brutal- side-of-iraq- war/2007/ 07/15/1184438120 925.html (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-troops-tell-of-brutal-side-of-iraq-war/2007/07/15/1184438120925.html)
US troops tell of 'brutal side' of Iraq war
July 15, 2007 - 10:38AM
US war veterans' eye-witness accounts of brutal events in the war in Iraq
have been published in a US magazine.
The leftist weekly magazine The Nation has devoted its entire July 30
edition to the testimonies of 50 US troops shocked by the heavy civilian
casualty toll exacted by the US-led occupation of Iraq.
"Just the carnage, all the blown-up civilians, blown-up bodies that I saw
... I started thinking like, 'Why? What was this for?"' said army specialist
Jeff Englehart.
The weekly said it was the "the first time so many on-the-record, named
eyewitnesses from within the US military have been assembled in one place
to openly corroborate ... a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television
screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts".
Only the Los Angeles Times daily has written about The Nation's issue,
which on Saturday continued to go unreported by the country's main
television stations and newspapers.
The Nation said it spent seven months gathering the testimonials of 50
soldiers, from private to captain, praising their courage of openly telling
what they had gone through.
"Many of these veterans returned home deeply disturbed by the disparity
between the reality of the war and the way it is portrayed by the US
government and American media," said the magazine.
The witnesses stressed that not all troops took part in indiscriminate
killings, which were mostly "perpetrated by a minority".
The soldiers, "nevertheless described such acts as common and said they
often go unreported - and almost always go unpunished", the magazine added.
"The war the vets described is a dark and even depraved enterprise, one that
bears a powerful resemblance to other misguided and brutal colonial wars
and occupations, from the French occupation of Algeria to the American
war in Vietnam and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory," The
Nation said.
"I guess while I was there, the general attitude was, 'A dead Iraqi is just
another dead Iraqi'," said Englehart, 26, who served in Baquba, northeast
of Baghdad, for a year beginning in February 2004.
AFP.